Shooting Script

Shooting Script

Infobox Book
name = Shooting Script
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image_caption = 1989 UK paperback cover
author = Gavin Lyall
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
series =
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genre = Thriller novel
publisher = Hodder & Stoughton
release_date = 1966
media_type = Print
pages = 235 pgs
isbn = 0-340-42975-5
preceded_by = Midnight Plus One
followed_by = Venus With Pistol

"Shooting Script" is a first person narrative novel by English author Gavin Lyall, first published in 1966.

Plot introduction

Keith Carr, an ex-Royal Air Force fighter pilot with combat experience in the Korean War is now living in Jamaica, where he makes a threadbare living flying charter cargo flights around the Caribbean in his mortgaged second-hand de Havilland Dove. After a rival pilot from his Korean War days lands a high-priced job commanding a squadron of de Havilland Vampire jet fighters for the hard-line military dictators on the nearby “Republica Libre”, Carr suddenly finds life more difficult. For some reason, the United States FBI is keeping him under surveillance. Republica Libre at first offers him a job, and then impounds his plane when he refuses – and one of his flying students ends up murdered. Carr is hired by the flamboyant movie director Walt Whitmore, who is filming an action movie on the north coast of Jamaica, and Carr is assigned to fly an old World War II vintage B-25 Mitchell medium bomber as a camera plane. However, it soon becomes apparent that Whitmore has more in mind for Carr and the decrepit bomber than just making a film.


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