The entertaining biography of one of the last of aviation's rugged individualists. Highly readable and packed with anecdotes, MAVERICK tells the tale of a self-educated flying enthusiast -- and ex-sailor, ex-truck driver, ex-pilot - who built a tiny shoe-string airline into an empire.
If you want to know every time someone at Continental airlines passed gas this is the book for you. Serling is a great researcher but he provides a mind numbing amount of detail that fills a lot of pages but is too inside baseball.