Back here I mentioned Frederick Forsyth's The Shepherd as a wonderful Christmas story. It's being played on CBC as I type, but better than that, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. finally got permission to provide Alan Maitland's reading of it in a RealPlayer file. Here it is. It's 31 minutes long and well worth listening to. Forsyth wrote it in five hours (he says in an interview with CBC) as a Christmas gift for his wife; he had kidded her that he had no Christmas present for her, and she demanded he write a ghost story to serve as one.
It's a tale of a pilot who is flying from Germany to England in 1957 on Christmas Eve when his plane's electrical system fails catastrophically, how he got down, and who led him in.
Posted by Linkmeister at December 22, 2006 03:14 PM | TrackBackzeez, Linky..
They want 77 bucks just for the paperback.......