Black Library - Hour of the Fighter Pilots (Paperback) (German)

Key Features

A Warhammer 40,000 novel

In the shattered macro-city of Vesperus, Imperial forces are locked in a brutal war of attrition. As the Aeronautica gambles everything to secure the city for the Imperium, a former ace pilot also returns to the cockpit.

WHY YOU SHOULD READ THIS BOOK

Twenty years after the acclaimed novel "Double Eagle" was published, Dan Abnett returns to the Aeronautica Imperialis in this long-awaited follow-up novel. Experience how a former ace pilot is forced to leave her comfortable "retirement" and plunge back into deadly aerial combat.

THE STORY

Twenty years after the nightmarish events of Double Eagle, the Imperium is embroiled in a war of attrition over the dead macro-city of Vesperus, a city of interceptors.

Former combat pilot Bree Jagdea has long since left the nerve-wracking aerial combat behind. Jagdea is content leading supply flights for the war and had actually retired. But when enemy forces begin a merciless bombardment of the macro-city, Jagdea is thrown back into the ranks of the Aeronautica – forcibly transferred to the notorious Squadron 66, with whom she carries out suicidal dive-bombing and extreme interception missions through Vesperus' deadly hidden routes.

Back in a world where the smallest mistake means instant death, Jagdea must try to outmaneuver enemy ace pilots, secure Vesperus for the Imperium, and somehow land with her sanity intact.

Written by Dan Abnett
Translated by Bent Jensen