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The Long Flight West
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 14 2026
Pages: 346
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The maps end long before the danger does.
Captain Tom Mercer only wanted to keep his battered freighter, the Westward Star, flying. Instead, one unregistered crate lands in his cargo hold and turns an ordinary freight run into a desperate journey across the Frontier Skies.
Inside is an illegal engine heart - a relic of the Sky Wars powerful enough to cripple aircraft, awaken forgotten machines, and draw the attention of mercenaries, governments and enemies who were supposed to be dead.
With chief engineer Walter Grady, bruiser Frank Doyle, fearless young thief Ruby, and former reconnaissance officer Victor Shaw at his side, Tom is forced farther west than any of them intended to travel.
Through electrical storm belts and floating wreck fields.
Across lawless skyports, abandoned military outposts and ancient metallic islands.
Into regions where lost cities still move, forgotten machinery is beginning to wake, and something beneath the clouds has been waiting for the engine heart to return.
Worse, Victor may know far more about the mystery than he remembers.
Someone deliberately placed the engine heart aboard the Westward Star.
Someone forged Tom's name.
Someone wants them to reach Marrow West.
But Marrow West is only the beginning.
Because beyond the last human chart lies the First City - and the truth about why the Frontier Skies are floating at all.
THE LONG FLIGHT WEST is a fast-moving dieselpunk adventure packed with aerial battles, lost technology, strange worlds, ancient mysteries and a stubborn crew who keep surviving long after common sense says they shouldn't.
The engines are running.
The maps are ending.
There is only one direction left to go.
West.
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