Air Vol. 3: Pureland - Softcover

Wilson, G. Willow

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1401227066 ISBN 13: 9781401227067

Publisher: Vertigo, 2010

Synopsis

Blythe's first test flight in Clearfleet's new hyperprax plane doesn't go as she planned. Dogged by a strange illness, she arrives at Sky 1 disoriented and off her guard before meeting an old friend who has a secret she is totally unprepared to hear. From there, out of desperatation to unravel the truth from the lies, Blythe makes a dangerous journey to the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan where she’s drawn into a holy war with a bizarre twist. If she wants to learn Zayn's final secret, she will have to survive the conflict.

Blythe's prescription drug dependency catches up with her as she fights for her life in Pakistan and her mysterious contact reveals the story behind Zayn's missing years. But will the info be too little, too late? When she arrives in Amsterdam in critical condition, it's up to Amelia to help save her. Determined to find Zayn and force him to man up, Amelia criss-crosses the globe – and the memories of her past.

About this title

From Booklist:

This sassy sci fi, with its realistic politics and alternative history as well as delightful characterizations, continues to unfold with unexpected but coherent and well-pitched plot twists. Blythe, the beautiful blond aviophobic flight attendant, continues to get herself into political messes—here in a skirmish between Jihadist Pakistanis and Pakistanis who want a liberal order—and romantic ones. Her evasive boyfriend, Zayn, disappears, and she follows, only to get more of his backstory from his older brother, one of the Pakistani freedom fighters. Amelia Earhart has a bigger role here than she has in previous volumes; Wilson and Perker's version of the American icon of flight has reached only middle age, has a bit more self-knowledge than she did as a younger woman, and can still perform her own mechanical work, although now, of course, it's toward the flying of the top-secret hyperprax. Panels are proportioned and filled to emphasize intriguing details in the nicely colored images, some of which are brightly blinding while others glow from darkened areas of the world and Blythe's imagination. A continuing winner of a read. --Francisca Goldsmith

About this edition

• Publisher: Vertigo
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1401227066
• ISBN 13: 9781401227067
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168
• Illustrator: Perker M.K.