The Sahara Desert, February 1962: the wreckage of a plane emerges
from the sands revealing, too, the body of the plane's long-dead
pilot. But who was he? And what had happened to him? Baker Street,
London, June 1927: twenty-five-year-old Jessie Miller had fled a
loveless marriage in Australia, longing for adventure in the London
of the Bright Young Things. At a gin-soaked party, she met Bill
Lancaster, fresh from the Royal Air force, his head full of a
scheme that would make him as famous as Charles Lindbergh, who has
just crossed the Atlantic. Lancaster wanted to fly three times as
far - from London to Melbourne - and in Jessie Miller he knew he
had found the perfect co-pilot. By the time they landed in
Melbourne, the daring aviators were a global sensation - and,
despite still being married to other people, deeply in love.
Keeping their affair a secret, they toured the world until the Wall
Street Crash changed everything; Bill and Jessie - like so many
others - were broke. And it was then, holed up in a run-down
mansion on the outskirts of Miami and desperate for cash, that
Jessie agreed to write a memoir. When a dashing ghostwriter Haden
Clark was despatched from New York, the toxic combination of the
handsome interloper, bootleg booze and jealousy led to a shocking
crime. The trial that followed put Jessie and Bill back on the
front pages and drove him to a reckless act of abandon to win it
all back. The Lost Pilots is their extraordinary story, brought to
vivid life by Corey Mead. Based on years of research and startling
new evidence, and full of adventure, forbidden passion, crime,
scandal and tragedy, it is a masterwork of narrative nonfiction
that firmly restores one of aviation's leading female pioneers to
her rightful place in history.
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