Ernest K. Gann Books in Order

Drawing on his experience as an airline pilot, Gann introduces readers to the pleasures and practical realities of flying. Anecdotes about early aircraft and life aloft capture an aviator’s enthusiasm for the expanding possibilities of air travel.

This illustrated survey profiles fifty-one American aircraft from aviation's early commercial era. Technical and descriptive information accompanies photographs, offering readers a snapshot of the machines that shaped flying in the United States during the 1930s.

Forced down by severe icing in northern Canada, a wartime transport crew depends on its pilot to survive the freezing wilderness. Meanwhile, fellow aviators organize a search, racing harsh weather and limited information to locate the stranded men.

Four brothers build their lives around barnstorming and the dangerous early years of aviation. Their loyalty, ambitions and daily risks are tested as one brother's marriage brings another person into the precarious world of the Flying MacDonalds.

After committing murder, Bruno Felkin hides aboard a San Francisco fishing boat. The skipper’s kindness offers an unfamiliar kind of belonging, but Bruno’s criminal business and his dealings with the skipper’s son threaten the refuge he has found.

Passengers and crew aboard a flight from Hawaii to California face an emergency when engine trouble develops halfway across the Pacific. With safety far away, the crisis tests the people aboard as their journey becomes a struggle to survive.

An American expatriate with a troubled past and powerful waterfront connections agrees to help a woman in Hong Kong. Searching for her missing photojournalist husband draws them toward China and the dangers surrounding his unexplained disappearance.

As the age of sail draws to an end, a captain resists surrendering his ship. His attachment to the vessel becomes a struggle over what can be preserved when the world that gave it meaning is disappearing.

A retired general takes charge of a Pacific atoll involved in nuclear testing and expects everyone to follow his orders. His wife, the islanders and a mischievous weatherman undermine that confidence before a real hurricane puts his authority to the test.

Over a single day, a big-city police force confronts a web of interlocking cases and human problems. Officers and the people they encounter reveal the competing impulses of good and evil running through the city.

In the skies above the First World War, French ace Chamay and German pilot Kupper become bitter personal enemies. Their rivalry unfolds amid the mechanical failures, grim casualties and devastation beneath the romantic image of aerial combat.

Gann recalls seventeen favourite boats he owned or chartered, exploring the fascination that repeatedly drew him back to the sea. His encounters with vessels and their crews reveal both sailing’s seductive appeal and its unpredictable dangers.

Celebrated pilot Alexander Malloy is blamed for a disastrous crash on a flight from Manila to Taipei. While the aviation world accepts his disgrace, Lewis Horn remains convinced of his innocence and searches for another explanation.

Gann surveys the aircraft and airmen who shaped commercial aviation, recalling airmail routes, cargo flying and the earliest passenger services. Personal experience and historical anecdotes reveal how distinctive machines influenced the techniques, risks and pleasures of flight.

Ernest Gann recounts a life spent pursuing flight, filmmaking, sailing and writing. His memoir connects professional adventures and personal turns of fortune, following the varied experiences that informed the stories for which he became widely known.

At Masada, Jewish leader Eleazar ben Yair faces the overwhelming forces of Rome under General Flavius Silva. The siege tests both men’s convictions as military power, private doubts and the determination to resist bring their opposing worlds together.

An airmail pilot and his young passenger crash in the Rocky Mountains in 1928. Stranded without supplies or shelter, the isolated pilot must keep an injured child alive while overcoming the emotional distance that has defined his life.

A judge discovers that the consequences of his decisions do not remain inside the courtroom. Cases over which he has presided bring complications into his own life, testing the distance between passing judgment and living with its effects.

Across aviation’s development from early gliders to modern flight, three fiercely independent people pursue their passion for flying. Their intertwined lives trace a changing world in which personal ambition and the lure of the sky remain inseparable.

Roman general Flavius Silva falls in love with Emperor Vespasian’s daughter Domitillia. Their relationship draws the commander into a struggle over imperial succession, where private desire threatens to entangle him in the dangerous pursuit of power.

After cocaine kills his eldest son, Montana rancher Lee Rogers enters politics and launches a campaign against drugs. His crusade reaches a critical point when he mysteriously vanishes, leaving disturbing questions about the enemies he has made.

Ernest Gann examines the pilots and aircraft of the United States Air Force's 99th Squadron. The account introduces the people behind an elite reconnaissance operation, exploring the demanding work of gathering intelligence from the air.