The lieutenant takes the sky

the long version

American pilot Mike Malloy has been unjustly sentenced to five years in a Moroccan penal battalion, which is French for death sentence. But Malloy, who could easily pass for Douglas Fairbanks, is about to get a reprieve...if he's willing to fly into the heart of the Sahara and into the teeth of a Berber rebellion. The expedition could have unexpected benefits. One of his passengers is a young woman whose eyes are as beautiful and blue as the wild blue yonder...