Free Flight

a Spine-tingling novel about a manhunt by land and air---set in Vermont and Canada in the aftermath of World War III

Douglas Terman's immensely successful book FRIST STRIKE introduced a dazzingly gifted talent to American readers, gaining him immediate acclaim as a master of the novel of action and suspense. FREE FLIGHT will be a greater triumph still.

Gregory Mallen, an air force officer, was on leave in an isolated Vermont cabin at the outbreak of all-out nuclear war. Now, a year later, having survived the fallout and an equally deadly flu epidemic, he finds himself hunted down by the new totalitarian regime as an enemy of the people. This is the story of his attempt to escape to British Columbia in an aircraft designed for sport flying and not for outmaneuvering combat helicopter.

There is a superbly portrayed cast of characters, including McKennon, a Peace Division officer who looks like a math teacher and thinks like a Gestapo interrogator; Baines, a chopper pilot and a hunter and killer by trade; Wyatt, a cultivated black lawyer forced by his conscience to become an outlaw; and a lovely French-Canadian woman, Jeanne, who plays a crucial role in Mallen's attempt to escape.

FREE FLIGHT contains some of the most exciting description of flying ever written. With its superb account of men and women acting under stress, and its shocking vision of the near future, it is an unforgettable experience.