Zero Over Berlin

(Hardback)

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A World War II novel from a different point of view. Maverick Japanese pilots attempt to fly 'Type Zero' fighters from Japan to Germany over the vast British Empire. That sounterfactual premise provides Japan's leading espionage writer the plot for a thumbs-up, full-throttle aviation adventure. Chocks away!

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"...a compact Japanese version of a W.E.B. Griffin novel." - Publishers Weekly

"Much more than just a plane-ride story, Zero Over Berlin offers a broad canvas of a world uneasily slipping into a world war. "- The Complete Review

Author Bio

Joh Sasaki is a writer of tales of adventure. He has published close to fifty books, including Zero Over Berlin. Both the Japan Mystery Writers Association and the Japanese Adventure Fiction Association have awarded him for excellence in writing. He has also won the Yamamoto Shugoro prize, and half a dozen of his works have been made into films and/or stage playsl Zero Over Berlin is his richest historical work, demostrating not only the breadth of Sasaki's research into World War II and fighter aircraft , but also the wealth of inmagination fed by his obsession with wild energy and unknown possibility.