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Learn moreThe most coveted combat decoration in all Germany, the Blue Max was a symbol of power, fame, and prestige beyond the reach of ordinary mortals.
Bruno Stachel is a nobody, a newly recruited junior officer in a First World War combat squadron. But he is determined not to remain a nobody for long. He has his sights on the Blue Max, the most coveted of all German decorations, and he will do anything to get it. From the very moment he shoots down his first plane, everything he does is aimed at that goal.
This world-famous novel of deadly combat in the skies tells the story of the men who killed for the Blue Maxāand died for it.
Stachelāmurderer and alcoholic. His meteoric rise to glory alienated him from his fellow pilots, and ultimately from human decency. Ketteringācollector of pornography. He became the victim of Stachelās ruthless ambition. Von Klugermannāthe haughty aristocrat. He delved too deeply into Stachelās torment, only to discover a cobra. Kaetiāthe woman who knew them all. Arrogant noblewoman, black-mailing nymphomaniacāand Stachelās beautiful mistress.
Jack D. Hunterās novel is a classic of war literature and a brilliant study of a pilot tortured by his naked ambition.
Jack D. Hunter (1921ā2009) often based his novels on his experiences as a US counterintelligence agent in World War II. The Blue Max was made into a motion picture, and The Expendable Spy was awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Special Award from the Mystery Writers of America.
Grover Gardner has recorded more than 650 audiobooks since beginning his career in 1981.Ā He's been named one of the "Best Voices of the Century" as well as a "Golden Voice" by AudioFile magazine.Ā Gardner has garnered over 20 AudioFile Earphones Awards and is the recipient of an Audio Publishers Association Audie Award, as well as a three-time finalist.Ā In 2005, Publishers Weekly deemed him "Audiobook Narrator of the Year."
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Gardner has also narrated hundreds of audiobooks under the names Tom Parker and Alexander Adams.Ā Among his many titles are Marcus Sakey's At the City's Edge, as well as Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and John Irving's The Cider House Rules.Ā Gardner studied Theater and Art History at Rollins College and received a Master's degree in Acting from George Washington University.Ā He lives in Oregon with his significant other and daughter.
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“Jack D. Hunter, who served as an American agent behind the German lines in World War II, writes with impressive authority about Germans and with absolutely astounding authority about the combat airplanes of World War I. His story moves fast and includes much tersely eloquent conversation.”
ā[Grover Gardnerās] readingā¦proves effortlessly engaging as the listener becomes absorbed in a story so well written that it needs little interpretive assistance. [Gardner] is one of those readers who can become transparent, leaving no distinct impression of themselves, only the text. This is no small accomplishment, requiring as it does an execution free of any distracting flawsā¦Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.ā
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