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The hero of The Pilot - modeled on John Paul Jones - leads the American Navy in dangerous raids on the English coast. James Fenimore Cooper's fourth novel, published in 1823, helped start the genre of sea novels. Cooper's other major works include the renowned Leatherstocking Tales: The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prarie, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer.

Carrera Panamericana México 1954, el acontecimiento automovilístico más importante del año. El joven mecánico español Dionisio Lorenzo compite como copiloto del millonario uruguayo de origen alemán Ernst Schneider. En la segunda etapa tienen un terrible accidente y Dionisio desaparece sin dejar rastro. A miles de kilómetros de distancia, en Montevideo, su mujer, Carmen, desaparece al mismo tiempo. Medio siglo después, el historiador e investigador de archivos Ulises López de Ayala recibe el encargo de solucionar ese misterio a partir de una sola pista....

When Ensign Deke Mallory is deployed to the Mediterranean at a crucial Cold War juncture, the fledgling Navy fighter pilot falls for a winsome Spanish girl - and under the spell of a rogue Navy Ace whose mutinous plan to flame their MiG tormentors violates the president's peace initiative. But the real threat to peace is lurking off-stage, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where a ex-Nazi SS unit has gone to ground with an insidious ruse guaranteed to trigger the superpowers' "mutually assured destruction".