The Enemy Sky

by Peter Saxon

SAME COVER AS STOCK PHOTO SHOWN. A FEW MINOR SCUFFS AND LIGHT EDGE WEAR ON COVERS AND SPINE. AGE RELATED TANNING & SOME DISCOLORATION INSIDE COVERS & ON PAGES. NO MARKING OR WRITING NOTED IN BOOK. MUSTY ODOR.

Mass Market Paperback

Published January 1, 1970

About the author

Peter Saxon was a house pseudonym used by various authors of British pulp fiction, among them W Howard Baker (Danger Ahead 1958, The Killing Bone 1968 and Vampire's Moon 1972); Rex Dolphin (The Vampires of Finistère 1968); Stephen D Frances (The Disorientated Man aka Scream and Scream Again 1966, Black Honey 1968, and Corruption 1968); Wilfred McNeilly (The Darkest Night 1966, Dark Ways to Death 1966, Satan's Child 1967, The Torturer 1967, and The Haunting of Alan Mais 1969); Ross Richards (Through the Dark Curtain 1968); and Martin Thomas (The Curse of Rathlaw 1968).

Reviews

[Charles · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was a bit disappointed in this one. The writing was fine and the characters and settings interesting but there was hardly any action in the story. Seemed like the main character, Frank, was always just about to fly or was flying but not running into any enemies, or was seeing action at a distance. There were only a few scenes where he's actually involved in the fighting. For example, at one point he sees a zepplin and starts toward it but it's shot down before he can get there so all he does is observe. The reader doesn't want their main character to be observing. They want them to be in action. There was also a fairly extended romantic relationship that filled quite a few pages. It's fine in such a book to have some romantic element but mostly I wanted to see the planes and pilots in action against German pilots and see the fighting. It really wasn't there. There are at least two others in this series, The Unfeeling Sky, and The Warring Sky. I have the latter but at the moment don't particularly plan to read it.

[Dave · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun pulp novel. I love prop planes so I thought it was great. Competently written.