Ernest Kellogg Gann

When Alexander Malloy, who has become a legend in flying, is blamed for the disastrous crash of the plane he is piloting from Manila to Taipei, the reaction of the aviation world is shock and embarrassment. Only one man, Lewis Horn, believes in Malloy's innocence.

Edgar Anscombe, an airmail pilot and former World War I fighter pilot, reluctantly takes Tillie Hansen as a passenger in his biplane on a cross-country journey. When the plane crashes and the two must rely on each other to survive, they begin to fall in love.

In the first century A.D., Flavius Silva, commander of the Roman Tenth Legion in Palestine, leads his forces in combat against the remaining Jewish Zealots who have taken refuge in the seemingly impregnable fortress of Masada. There, the engineering and military might of Rome faces the passion and ingenuity of Eleazer ben Yair and his people.