Spine-Chilling Horor with a terrifying historical twist!

"It took me by surprise. The flight's thematic significance and the aerial imagery coupling with Hunter's inner landscape kept me aloft–and horrified."
—Jennifer Hegeman

KIRKUS REVIEW for FLYING DARK:

"Highly recommended for historical fiction fans who like their literary fare decidedly dark.
In Sargent’s metaphysical thriller, a probate investigator and Charles Lindbergh scholar encounters a mysterious woman who may be Lindbergh’s rightful heir.
In 1932, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh and his novelist wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh was kidnapped from their New Jersey estate and later found murdered nearby. Although a suspect was arrested, convicted, and executed, many questions remained unanswered regarding Lindbergh—the first pilot to fly solo from New York to Paris—and his shadowy past, which could include numerous offspring from wayward trysts. Half a century later, former Navy pilot and current special investigator Hunter Dauger makes a living out of exposing fraudsters, specifically people claiming to be related to wealthy and/or famous individuals for financial benefit. When Dauger begins questioning a mysterious and strangely hypnotic woman named Pia (“She was urban, dangerous, sophisticated, and girlish all at once”), who could be Lindbergh’s illegitimate daughter, he becomes increasingly entangled in Lindbergh’s obsession with eugenics and (perceived) connections to Nazism and antisemitism—as well as his own desperate search for identity, which is deeply rooted in his lack of knowledge regarding his own father. The sheer uniqueness of this novel is an undeniable strength, but its originality could be perceived as a barrier by readers looking for more conventional literary escapism. Loosely structured as a thriller, the narrative incorporates elements of historical and speculative fiction with a supernatural undertone, but ultimately, it’s a surprisingly intimate chronicle of one man’s journey of self-discovery. The sequences at the novel’s end when Dauger, on a marathon flight, flies into his own inner Spirit Cave (“the maw, the hearth of the dead”) are both terrifying and enlightening. Also noteworthy is the author’s subtle use of humor throughout (“You Parisians give me the crepes”).
Highly recommended for historical fiction fans who like their literary fare decidedly dark."

Aviator Charles Lindbergh's aw-shucks schtick is a mask for a monster who destroys strangers and loved ones with equal indifference. 

Hunter makes a fortune exposing fraudsters. When Hunter stumbles across the corpse of his German teacher on his old reformatory grounds, he's certain he is onto something evil and becomes drawn into the mystery.   

Unsure who is own father is, Hunter is no angel himself. A former "black ops" military officer, he knows what he has to do to get the job done, no matter the cost. 

Nightmares, hallucinations, and fragments of grisly memories knock on the door of his subconscious. Even the stage prop "Old Sparky" in his new lover's lurid Grand Guignol connects a deadly circuit in Hunter.

Orisa cards warn of air disaster. Brainy Pia offers a path out of his disintegration. Traveling the globe—Paris, Berlin, Geneva, and London—Hunter can't resist the magnetic scene south of New York where the Crime of the Century once played out.   

Hunter is falling through the universe's trap door. He's headed for hell–unless he can redeem himself with one final flight.   

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Release: October 2023

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