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THREE CENTS TO HIS NAME. EIGHTEEN THOUSAND MILES TO FLY. AND A RIVAL WHO WANTS HIM TO DISAPPEAR.

Smoke Burnham is one of America’s most famous air racers. He breaks speed records, draws crowds wherever he lands and flies with perhaps the most unusual companion in aviation—Patty, his pet cheetah.

What the crowds don’t know is that Smoke is broke.

He has poured everything into his aircraft company and a new high-speed pursuit plane. Now Paul Harrison Girard, the powerful newspaper publisher who financed him, is calling in the debt and threatening to take everything Smoke has built.

Smoke’s answer is to take the biggest gamble of his career: the International Air Derby, an 18,000-mile race from Washington across the Caribbean, over the Andes and Amazon jungle, through California and back across the country. The winner takes $50,000—and Smoke has wagered his future on reaching the finish line first.

There is only one problem: he needs a plane.

With the race only days away, Smoke and his fast-talking publicity man Alex Montague talk their way into an experimental four-engine Super-Comet. It is fast enough to win. Whether it—and Smoke—can survive the route is another question.

And Girard has no intention of leaving the outcome to flying skill alone.

Man-Killers of the Air is fast-paced historical fiction and action adventure fiction filled with air racing, sabotage, early aviation danger and a high-stakes flight across two continents.

Drawing on his broad knowledge of the world, its people and professions, L. Ron Hubbard created vivid historical adventures shaped by the places, technology and conflicts of their time.

Part of the L. Ron Hubbard Historical Fiction Collection—12 books featuring 17 classic stories—available in paperback, eBook and full-cast dramatized audiobook. If you enjoy the historical adventures of Jack London and Wilbur Smith, discover another master storyteller of historical fiction.