Bootleg Skies

By Paul Berge

A book about smuggling whiskey during prohibition from Canada to Nebrask, an odd collection of down-and-out pilots, this book takes on the cruel Midwestern snows, towering thunderstorms and endless... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0962585904
• ISBN13: 9780962585906
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Performance Pubns
• Length: 427 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Smokey Airplane Action

Over the past ten years I've become kind of a non-fiction geek. Dunno, just can't seem to find any fiction that gets its hooks deeply enough into me to make a real impression. I give it a whirl a few times a year with a new Grisham or something I hear about on NPR, but by the last page I'm still not satisfied. It's disappointing. Just finished reading Bootleg Skies this morning, and it shattered this bad-fiction streak. It fulfilled my expectations for being fun, pulpy, and full of smokey airplane action. But it also genuinely surprised me with its thorough character development and engrossing plot. I look forward to more from Berge. If you're a pilot, or, like me, clawing your way through the expensive and time-consuming process of becoming one, you'll really enjoy this book. It'll remind you of what drew you into that FBO the first time, yourself.

A real page-turner

You will truly be transported back to this thrilling era of flying by this book. Berges gripping book exudes the exitement of early flying,Berge obviously knows of what he writes.