Walter Boyne
This is an interesting book, but it’s not much of a novel. All the interest comes from the history, to the extent that I soon started wondering if my time wouldn’t be better spent with a biography of the Wrights. I did come away from reading it with an appreciation of the magnitude of Orville and Wilbur’s accomplishment. Powered flight is so much a part of our world that it’s easy to forget how hard it was to achieve it. The Wrights did it - ahead of some tough competition - thanks to dogged persistence and a disciplined, orderly pursuit of their goal.