Between the thunder and the sun

by Alfred Coppel

It was a seemingly routine flight out of San Francisco bound for Miami. No one suspected that a quiet passenger was actually an armed and demented hijacker who would be ordering the plane to Cuba. And, no one suspected the mild meteorological disturbance in the Caribbean to churn into a hurricane and to move directly into the path of the pirated plane. Yet, the madness of man and nature conspire to destroy Flight 17 and the desperate people aboard her. Was Flight 17 keeping a rendezvous with both danger and death?

257 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel was an American author. He served as a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After his discharge, he started his career as a writer. He became one of the most prolific pulp authors of the 1950s and 1960s, adopting the pseudonyms Robert Cham Gilman and A.C. Marin and writing for a variety of pulp magazines and later "slick" publishers. Though writing in a variety of genres, including action thrillers, he is known for his science fiction stories which comprise both short stories and novels.