Historical FictionTeam Alcock and Brown's Epic Flight is a fictionalized version of the events and characters involved in the race for the first Atlantic Ocean crossing by aircraft as related to me by my father when I myself was a young boy. A group of young boys are swept up in the excitement that swirled around the frantic preparations for the Greatest Air Race of them all. Ike is a boy born and raised on the wrong side of town, suddenly thrust into manhood by the untimely death of his father. He finds a distraction from his pain when he and his young friends assume a pivotal roll in history by supporting the competing race air crews.
