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Gavin Lyall's flight thrillers

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About Gavin Lyall's flight books

Gavin Lyall was a thriller author. Among his works were four books which have been grouped together as his flight books. Drawing on his experience in the RAF and as an aviation reporter, the books delve into the shady side of aviation (or more literally "The Wrong side of the Sky") including civil wars, treasure hunts and smuggling.

As a description of flying, some of these are the closest you can get with your feet still on the ground! As well as his flight thrillers, Gavin Lyall wrote a number of of series, including spy fiction and the Major Harry Maxim books.

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  1. About the Flight books
  2. The Wrong Side of the Sky
  3. The Most Dangerous Game
  4. Shooting Script
  5. Judas Country
  6. Dedicated Lenses about the Flight books
  7. Like this lens?
  8. Other options
  9. Bookmark This Lens
  10. Reader reviews
  11. About the lensmaster
  12. Tirial's bio and Featured Lenses

About the Flight books

More about the four aviation thrillers

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The books were written over a fifteen year period.

1961 The Wrong side of the Sky
1963 The Most Dangerous Game
1966 Shooting Script
1975 Judas Country

Other books he wrote durting this period were more standard thrillers, focusing the action on the ground rather than in the air.

These four books have several characteristics in common:
- First person narrative,
- a hero who is a pilot and usually ex-military,
- a focus on the aircraft involved.

The plot usually revolves around flying and aviation where the pilot has been recruited (or is being recruited) for his skills. However, the descriptions of flying are excellent obserbed, and the aircraft have as much character as the people.

The Wrong Side of the Sky

The first flight book

Gavin Lyall's debut novel, written in 1961. The title refers to smuggling, and criminal actions that occur in the aviation industry - putting pilots not just on the wrong side of the law, but also the wrong side of the sky.

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The Wrong Side of the Sky

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The Most Dangerous Game

The second flight book

Written in 1963, An aerial survey pilot, making charter flights round Finland in his seaplane, finds his wartime past with the SOE catching up with him.

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Shooting Script

The third flight book

Written in 1966, Keith Carr is a retired RAF pilot. When he is hired to fly a camera plane in South America, he never expects to run into an old friend and get involved in a civil war.

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Judas Country

The final flight book

The last of the flight books written in 1975. Roy Case is an ex-RAF pilot making a living flying a Beechcraft Queen Air around the Mediterranian.

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Dedicated Lenses about the Flight books

More about Gavin Lyall's books

There are too much about these books to fit on one lens, so each book has a dedicated lens set up for it. Each of these lenses contains more about the book, purchase options (since some are out of print) and details about the aircraft with video if possible.
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eBay and Amazon.co.uk options to purchase

As well as being available from Amazon.com, his books are widely available in the UK and Europe. This means it may be cheaper to buy them from these market places. Second hand versions can be available for as low as 1p for common editions with large print runs. Live data from Amazon.co.uk can be seen below.

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  • CDT Apr 7, 2009 @ 11:17 am | delete
    An excellent Gavin Lyall lensography :)

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