The frost-cracked concrete was a white blaze in the moonlight, cutting through the dark ranks of the trees to the open plain of the airfield. I found a path and followed it to the earth mound of an old dispersal point. The branches of the trees cut me off from the sky and only a ghostly radiance told me that the moon still filled the world with its white light.
I could still hear the planes, but I couldn’t see them. It was very still there in the woods, even the sound of my footsteps was muffled by the carpet of pine needles. The trees closed round me and I was in a world apart. The cold seeped through my flying suit, stiffening my limbs, and at length I turned and walked into the woods. A small wind whispered in the upper branches of the fir trees and every few minutes there was the distant drone of a plane - airlift, pilots flying down the corridor to Berlin. Enjoy!įor a long time after the plane had disappeared I stood there on the fringe of the woods gazing at the empty expanse of the airfield. Set in England during the Berlin blockade and airlift of 1948–49 (during which time the British RAF and other aircrews frustrated the Soviet Union’s attempt to gain practical control of that city), the novel’s protagonist is a mercenary pilot… but is he a traitor? Hammond Innes wrote over 30 adventures, many of them set in hostile natural environments. HiLoBooks is pleased to serialize Hammond Innes’s 1951 espionage thriller/Robinsonade Air Bridge.
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