A straight-arrow midwestern flyer and a rising mafioso team up to clip the wings of a murderous Italian ace who terrorizes the skies over WW II Sicily. Co-writers Pacheco (the nonfiction Fight Doctor, 1977) and Skimin (Gray Victory, 1988; Chikara!, 1984) based the story on a real incident. A novel that commemorates the heroism of the American fighter and bomber pilots of World War II is set in Italy in 1943, when an Italian pilot captures an American P-38 Lightning and uses it to shoot down unsuspecting American bombers. This book was first published in 1992. The work is a remarkable look at WWII flying in the Mediterranean. The winner of the 1953 Ohiohana book award for Chikara!