Glory Boys

Harry Bingham's fourth novel maintains the high quality set by his masterpiece The Money Makers, Sweet Talking Money and The Sons of Adam. Like The Sons of Adam, Glory Boys is a period piece set in the early era of aviation, the World War has just finished and prohibition is still strong in the US. The Glory Boys of aviation fresh from the war now have to make another living. Willard Thornton laps up his hero status and sets to extend his five minutes of fame with a movie career. Only problem is he is not a very good actor and soon becomes massively in debt and has to work for the company his loan is with to pay it back. Captain Abraham Rockwell has no dreams to become wealthy and is only interested in flying but a mechanical failure has him crash landing in Independence, Georgia where he is worshiped and treated as possible saviour of the town from the booze runners of Marion the town to the south. Glory Boys is a very enjoyable read. I am definitely not usually into period pieces but the quality of Bingham's previous work meant I couldn't pass this up. I wasn't disappointed and like all Bingham novels you learn a hell of a lot as well. If you haven't read his masterpiece The Moneymakers definitely check it out!