CONTENTS

[CHAPTER ONE]Eagles' Reward 11
[CHAPTER TWO] Clocks Won't Wait 22
[CHAPTER THREE] Simmering Doom 33
[CHAPTER FOUR] Atlantic Mirage 43
[CHAPTER FIVE] Ice Cold Courage 55
[CHAPTER SIX] Action C.O.D. 66
[CHAPTER SEVEN] Yankee Bluff 80
[CHAPTER EIGHT] Home Again 95
[CHAPTER NINE] White TNT 109
[CHAPTER TEN] Wings Westward 125
[CHAPTER ELEVEN] Invisible, Chaos 141
[CHAPTER TWELVE] Eagles Can't Die 154
[CHAPTER THIRTEEN] Blood In the Sky 168
[CHAPTER FOURTEEN] Beware the Sharks! 180
[CHAPTER FIFTEEN] Aces Think Fast 191
[CHAPTER SIXTEEN] Warriors' Duty 204
[CHAPTER SEVENTEEN] Lightning Wings 223
[CHAPTER EIGHTEEN] Satan's Last Gasp 236

[CHAPTER ONE]
Eagles' Reward

With all the appearance of a man striving to solve one of the world's weightier problems, Freddy Farmer studied the Hotel Savoy menu card line by line from top to bottom. Across the table Dave Dawson sat looking at his closest pal, and grinning from ear to ear. Eventually, though, when the English-born air ace continued to take the menu apart bit by bit with his eyes, Dawson decided that enough was enough. He reached over and whisked the card out of Freddy's hand.

"Okay, little man," he chuckled. "I'll tell you what the big words mean, if you like. Now, this one, here—water. That's stuff that comes in a glass. You drink it. It also comes down out of the sky in what we call rain. It flows under bridges, and—"

"And please stop, I beg you!" Freddy snapped. "My sides ache with laughter. I couldn't possibly stand another of your hilarious remarks. And hand back that menu before I take measures that will get us both thrown out of this hotel!"

"But why hand it back?" Dawson laughed. "Holy smoke! Don't you know it by heart yet? For fifteen solid minutes you've been looking at the thing."

"Quite," the other replied gravely. "And thoroughly enjoying myself making believe. Hand it back, please, young fellow!"

"How's that?" Dave echoed, and passed the menu. "Making believe? I don't get you."