The Shepherd: The thrilling number one bestseller from the master of storytelling

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The pilot learns he is at RAF Minton, which hasn’t been an operational station for years, and is now a storage depot.

This involved moving out to sea, then flying in small triangles, turning left, left, and left again, with each leg of the triangle being of a duration of two minutes' flying time. In this edition there are also some wonderful illustrations by Lou Feck, who apparently was quite well-known for his book cover illustrations. Every Christmas with one or two exceptions the CBC News show "As It Happens" has since 1979 played an audio recording of The Shepard. An engaging little piece of work, very well worth the hour or so that it takes to read -- ideally aloud in front of a warm fire on a cold winter evening. As something you can read in one very quick sitting, it is interesting but doesn’t really blow the mind.

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More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. Below me lay the worst of them all, the heavy brutality of the North Sea, waiting to swallow me and my plane and bury us for endless eternity in a liquid black crypt where nothing moved nor would ever move again. The story has been broadcast "nearly every Christmas since 1979" in Canada on the CBC Radio One news programme As It Happens. The pilot thought Kavanaugh must have bought his old Mosquito with JK painted on it, still flew it on occasion, had seen a plane in distress and directed it to his old base. It was a pretty decent story, though I definitely preferred the first half where the pilot is struggling to the second half after he's landed.What to do when suffering an electronic instrument panel malfunction at thirty thousand feet and swirling fog.

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But there's no abundance for the lonely and seemingly doomed Voodoo pilot flying this Christmas Eve sortie to the Netherlands and back, from the British coast. This novelette, fairly well known and often read as a Christmas story, is quite different from any of the rest of Forsyth's novels. The aircraft in the poster bears no resemblance to the aircraft in the film, which is a de Havilland Vampire - a British jet fighter that first flew in 1943, and was the world's first single engined jet fighter.

Flying a De Havilland Vampire, a British jet fighter, he knew the flight time would take 66 minutes.

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He hung up the telephone and thought someone must have bought one of the old Mosquitoes, happened to be flying on Christmas Eve, saw a pilot flying in small triangles, and led him to the storage depot, which had the closest airstrip. He left the BBC in 1968 after controversy arose over his alleged bias towards the Biafran cause and accusations that he falsified segments of his reports. Below me lay the worst of them all, the heavy brutality of the North Sea, waiting to swallow me up and my plane and bury us for endless eternity in a liquid black crypt where nothing moved nor would ever move again. During his intensive training, the young pilot had learned that should he ever lose his radio and be unable to transmit his emergency, he should try to attract the attention of RAF radar scanners by adopting a triangle manoeuvre. Every year, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation broadcasts a reading of The Shepherd by Alan Maitland.

It's a beautiful night full of stars but about 20 minutes into his flight things go terribly wrong with his instruments necessary to navigate and to add to his dilemma, his radio is out. It is Christmas Eve, 1957, and there are cozier places to be than the cockpit of a de Havilland Vampire fighter plane. This was for me the best Christmas military short story - plus, it's written by the master who wrote The Day of the Jackal - I've ever come across! There isn’t all that much depth but it easy conveys the feelings you would expect from this kind of work. Found this classic short-story by coincidence on a bookshelf in a hotel in Puerto Rico, Gran Canaria, while waiting for our taxi to the airport.