Bøger af Don Dahler

Kyle Royce is the kind of young, handsome, fabulously wealthy New Yorker the tabloids have a field day with. A successful currency trader, he attends all the right charity events, arriving in one of his many exotic cars with an exquisite woman on his arm, and enough charm and humor to entertain even the most bored socialite at his table. But behind the public persona, Royce leads a very different life. Through his shadowy organization, The Foundation, he and his hand-picked team of former government officials, detectives, and technology experts, have a singular goal: to find the missing, by any means legal . . . or otherwise. When approached by a woman desperate to track down her brother who disappeared almost two decades ago during the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, Royce and The Foundation find themselves dodging foreign agents, the NYPD, the NSA, and even the F.B.I., as the search carries them round the world to a shocking conclusion.

In the spirit of the bestseller Fly Girls comes the definitive and compelling true story of Harriet Quimby, the first American woman to receive a pilot's license. In the early twentieth century, headlines declared that "e;the era of women has dawned."e; Against this changing historical backdrop, Harriet Quimby's extraordinary life stands out as the embodiment of this tumultuous, exciting erawhen flight was measured in minutes, not miles.This untold piece of feminist history unveils Quimby's incredible story: rising from humble beginnings as a dirt-poor farm girl to become a globe-trotting journalist, history-making aviator, and international celebrity. With her tragic death in 1912 at the age of thirty-seven, her story faded, with her many accomplishmentsthe first woman to fly solo over the English Channel among themovershadowed by major events, including the sinking of the Titanic. With black and white illustrations throughout, Fearless,/i> is the definitive biography of the first licensed female American pilot: one of the most inspiring hidden figures of history.