Lone Eagle - Danielle Steel

Written by Danielle Steel
Read by Ron McLarty
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date: April 10, 2001
Duration: 13:18:11

The phone call came on a snowy December afternoon. Kate was certain it was Joe, the brilliant, visionary man who had been her soul mate, her driving force since the night they met, almost thirty-five years before. What she got was the one call she had never wanted, and didn’t expect. As the snow continued to fall, Kate’s mind drifted back, to the moment when she and Joe first met. She had been just seventeen and he was young, powerful, dazzling, and different from any man she’d ever known.

It was just days before Christmas, 1940. The war is raging in Europe when Kate Jamison makes her debut in New York City. In a room filled with the scions of East Coast society and the leading political figures of the day, it is Joe Allbright who catches Kate’s eye. At twenty-nine, Joe is the brilliant protege of Charles Lindbergh, and already a legend in flying circles for his record-breaking speed and state-of-the-art airplane designs. …. As the months pass, they will meet again, forging a bond that will set the course of both their lives. Kate will go off to study at Radcliffe. Joe will skyrocket to fame in modern aviation. Joe’s planes are his life, his passion. But irresistibly drawn to her, moth to flame, he always comes back to Kate. Even after the long dark years of World War II, when Kate was sure she had finally lost him completely, Joe returns. Never willing to stay, always needing to fly away. As planes are for him, Joe is the passion in her life.

Readers gave this one low marks, Joe is a jerk and Kate is spinless…

“ Ron McLarty draws the listener close and communicates the intricate and shifting relationship, begun between Kate and Joe at her coming-out ball during the war in 1940. Later, he skillfully depicts Kate’s anguish-laden voice as she demands Joe fulfill his promise of marriage, only to be ignored. Told in flashback, the predictable story fails to enthrall the listener with suspense despite McLarty’s excellent reading.”– AudioFile