Ernest K. Gann a puisé son inspiration dans ses vastes voyages et aventures, tant comme aviateur que comme marin. Ces expériences ont façonné sa production littéraire, qui explore fréquemment les thèmes du courage, du destin et de l'esprit humain face aux éléments. Son style d'écriture se caractérise par des récits captivants et des descriptions détaillées de scènes aériennes et maritimes, plongeant le lecteur dans l'action. Gann a magistralement entrelacé ses expériences personnelles avec des histoires fictives, créant des œuvres captivantes qui célèbrent l'esprit d'aventure.
"This book is an episodic log of some of the more memorable of (the author's) nearly 10,000 hours aloft in peace and in war. It is also an attempt to define by example his belief in the phenomenon of luck-- that the pattern of anyone's fate is only partly contrived by the individual".--The New Yorker.
When cocaine claims the life of his eldest son, Montana cattle rancher Lee Rogers runs for Congress and wages an all-out war on drugs, but at the height of his campaign, he mysteriously disappears
Men against the north--a story of the ferry command, Air Transport, & of Dooley, who had 20 years' record of success in commercial air flight, only to come down, icebound, somewhere in the unchartered northland. Dooley was dean of a close knit group, & everything else took second place as the men came into headquarters, & set out again to find him. An unknown lake--beyond unknown mountains--a time schedule--& faith--such alone they had to go on, hampered by Army red tape, lack of radio contact, navigation rules upset by the frozen north. The story shifts from Dooley's experiences, with the five men who counted on him, to the men who sought him. Starkly told--another segment of understanding of total war.--Kirkus
The four MacDonald brothers were born to fly. Right after World War I they took to stunt flying at county fairs, barnstorming their way around the U.S.A., selling joy rides and confounding the populace with an assortment of highly skilled aerobatics in the unlikely aircraft of the time. They graduated to a steadier way of making a living, but the dangers were just as acute - if not more so. For now they had a contract to deliver he mails, and this had to be done on time, in all kinds of weather, under all kinds of conditions. But neither the conditions nor the tragedies they inevitably suffered would stop them.
In 1928, a lonely, guilt-ridden U.S. mail pilot and his passenger survive a devastating crash and begin a journey of survival in the Rocky Mountains
