MIDNIGHT GHOSTS is a mystery novel based on actual events in world aviation history. Raymond Orteig, a NY Hotel owner, offered a $25,000 prize to the first pilot flying nonstop between Paris and New York (in either direction). This prize generated a worldwide rivalry between the countires of competing pilots, and planes. Being the country of origin of the winner could generate enormous profits for that nation's airline companies, airports and airline stockholders. What if a ruthless U.S. manufacturer of airline engines determined that only an American pilot and plane must win that prize. That...