The Shepherd by Frederick Forsyth (1976, Hardcover)

The Shepherd
by Frederick Forsyth
Publisher: The Viking Press
Copyright 1976
Book Club Edition

All those things that had seemed so beautiful as I climbed away from the airfield in Lower Saxony now seemed my worst enemies.  The stars were no longer impressive in their brilliance; I thought of their hostility, sparkling away there in the timeless, lost infinities of endless sub-zero space.  The night sky, its stratopheric temperature fixed, night and day alike, at an unchanging fifty-six degrees below zero, became in my mind a limitless prison creaking with the cold.  Below me lay the worst of them all, the heavy brutality of the North Sea, wating to swallow up me and my plane and bury us for endless eternity in a liquid crypt where nothing moved, nor would ever move again.  And no one would every know.

Christmas Eve, 1957 -- a young R.A.F. pilot is guiding his Vampire jet fighter high over the North Sea, his mind on home and the holiday leave ahead.  Gradually he notices that the hum in his headphones has ceased and that the compass needle is "drifting lazily around the clock, passing through east, west, south, and north with total impartiality."  The plane's entire electrical system has blown:  with n radio and rapidly dwindling fuel supply, with fog rolling in and bail-out into the freezing sea as sure as death as going dwn with the plane, it seems certain that this is the pilot's last Christmas Eve.  How he lives to tell the take is a gem of a story, one whose power and beauty will enthrall across the seasons so long as there are readers and listeners to attend.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover.  Pages may be tanning from age.  Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.  Dust cover and dust cover flaps are tanning and discolored from age and show a bit of edge wear.

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