Description: Historical FictionTeam Alcock and Brown's Epic Flight inspired by actual events and characters involved in the race for the first Atlantic Ocean crossing by aircraft as related to me by my father when I myself was a young boy. A group of young boys are swept up in the excitement that swirled around the frantic preparations for the Greatest Air Race of them all. Ike is a boy born and raised on the wrong side of town, suddenly thrust into manhood by the untimely death of his father. He finds a distraction from his pain when he and his young friends assume a pivotal roll in history by supporting the competing race air crews.