Goodbye Mickey Mouse

`The sheer charge of the writing swept me into another world` The Times December 1943. A group of US fighter pilots is camped at a windswept air base in Norfolk. Their job is to escort bombers over Germany, and each mission could be their last. Among them are cocky Lieutenant Mickey Morse (nicknamed `Mickey Mouse`), who is almost on his way to becoming a Flying Ace, and reserved Captain Jamie Farebrother, who is starting to fall in love with an English woman. All they have in common is their courage - until the day their lives converge in ways they could never have imagined. `Truly astonishing in its recreation of a time and place ... it is a novel of memory, satisfying on every imaginable level` Washington Post