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A Falcon Flies is a novel by Wilbur Smith. It was the first in a series of books known as The Ballantyne Novels. [1] The Rhodesian Bush War of the 1970s inspired Smith to research and write a book set in historical Rhodesia. He originally planned it as one novel but it ended up as a trilogy. [2]
The books, and the period they cover, are: A Falcon Flies aka Flight of the Falcon (1980) - 1860s; Men of Men (1981) - 1870s-1890s [2] The Angels Weep (1982) - first part 1890s, second part 1977; The Leopard Hunts in Darkness (1984) - 1980s; The Triumph of the Sun (2005) - Courtney and Ballantyne - 1880s; King of Kings (2019) - Courtney and ...
The Falcon and the Snowman was eventually published in 1979 and in 1980 he received the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best non-fiction crime book. In 1983, the sequel, The Flight of the Falcon: The True Story of the Escape and Manhunt for America's Most Wanted Spy, was released; it chronicled Boyce's escape from federal prison and subsequent bank ...
In his book Flight of the Falcon, fellow air force officer Sajad Haider, who was the last person to speak with Butch over the radio before his crash, wrote: "Butch truly never had an enemy; everybody loved Butch, especially the girls from the Burt Institute (an Anglo-Indian club operated by the Railways)." [2]
Robert Lindsey, The Flight of the Falcon: The True Story of the Escape and Manhunt for America's Most Wanted Spy, Simon & Schuster, 1983, ISBN 0-671-45159-6; Christopher Boyce, Cait Boyce, Vince Font, American Sons: The Untold Story of the Falcon and the Snowman, Glass Spider Publishing, 2013/2017, ISBN 978-0-9997070-3-6
In the book, Flight of the Falcon, Sajad Haider wrote: "FS Hussain, the greatest fighter pilot PAF ever had. He would loop an Attacker or F-86 inverted all the way, and at Karachi flying club we witnessed him do these very crazy manoeuvres in a Tiger Moth bi-plane, spin it from 2000 feet and scare the crap out of us.
The Falcon and the Snowman is a 1985 American spy drama film directed by John Schlesinger.The screenplay by Steven Zaillian is based on the 1979 book The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage by Robert Lindsey, and tells the true story of two young American men, Christopher Boyce (Timothy Hutton) and Andrew Daulton Lee (), who sold security secrets to the Soviet Union.
The Flight of the Falcon (1969) The House of Kent (1969) The Hunter's Moon (1969) The Tune of Time (1970) Rosemary for Frinton (1970) The Caravan of Chance (1971) Rosemary for Chelsea (1971) The Duke of Windsor (1972) Edwardian Day-dream (1972) The Ten Day Queen (1972) Cheval Glass (1973) The Old Rectory (1973) The Old Elm Tree (1974) Mirage on ...