The four winds

the long version

This beautifully written novel combines an unforgettable love story with the dramatic operations of a great overseas airline. Mark Kelston is a piilot for the Mid Atlantic Line of British Empire Airways. He is the best type of pilot, loving the life and the work, finding in it a kind of escape from marriage without love. When, on a routine flight, Mark spots a Portuguese freighter foundering off the Azores, he is caught up in the swift excitement of an air-sea rescue. Kelston stays with it to the last possible moment and, when he lands at the Azores, finds he has become a hero. More important, he finds that he is falling in love...