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destroyed" to the publisher, and neither the author nor the publisher
has received any payment for this "stripped link."

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in
this book are either products of the author's imagination or are used
fictitiously.

FLYING TO PIECES

Copyright @ 1997 by Dean Ing All rights reserved, including the right to
reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.

Map by Mark Stein Studios.

A Tor Book Published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc. 175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010

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ISBN: 0-812-54841-8

Library of Congress Card Catalog Number. 97-6275

First edition: August 1997 First mass market edition: September 1998
Printed in the United States of America 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

For Rob and David, who helped wrangle the little winged beast
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

my brain trust of vintage throttle jockeys, especially Ted Voulgaris,
contributed much with hair-raising accounts of the propeller era. This
time, they were aided in some areas by airmen Bill Knowles, Dan Denney,
David Guerriero, Wayne Reavis, Smithsonian aircraft wizards Tom Alison
and Rich Horigan, music maven Karen Kammerer, the lovely and radiant
Peter Sage, marine engineer Mark McAdams, and our family Alaskans, Glenn
and Valerie Ing-Miller. Though the following tale is-like
Fundabora-chiefly fictional, I learned that its central wild-hare idea
is rooted in fact; more than one stash of "pickled" Japanese treasures
have actually been found hidden in the manner, and for the purpose,
described here.

For background lore on the Nippon of the 1930s I am indebted to author
John Patric, whose wanderings through Japan yielded, in 1943, the
wonderfully readable Why Japan Was Strong. Scholars of that period, and
of strategic warfare, will find this book brimful of astonishing
insight.

PROLOGUE.