Publisher's Synopsis
'The broadcast ended abruptly and switched to a Canadian feed playing 'O Canada' over a view of the Canadian Houses of Parliament. The reassurances and smooth talking that had been customary in government messages were absent.
"It's a tough world we live in," said Ghislaine.'
Chris Brown spends his summer school holidays building an aircraft from a kit. As he finishes it, and is just old enough to fly it, an old pilot at the flying club tells him about his life-long dream of flying a small aircraft across the Atlantic, as ferry pilots did in World War 2.
One day, Chris is distracted from his dream by a beautiful girl getting out of a business jet: he just has to meet her. It is a case of love at first sight. Sophie is very involved in the maker-mender movement and wants to go with him on his adventure. He can't take a passenger, so Sophie kisses him goodbye at Montreal as he heads off for his five-day flight, looking forward to meeting him in England when he arrives.
Unknown to Chris and Sophie, events are happening in the world that will change their lives forever. Just hours before his expected European landfall, Chris becomes embroiled in a life-or-death struggle. Sophie greets her hero boyfriend, but is sworn to secrecy about what makes him so...
