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Philip Jett is a retired corporate and tax attorney who has represented multinational corporations, CEOs, and celebrities from the music, television, and sports industries. He is a member of various boards and organizations, including a founding member of the Nashville Writers’ Council. His first nonfiction book, The Death of an Heir: Adolph Coors III and the Murder That Rocked an American Brewing Dynasty, was released in September 2017 and was named one of the best true crime stories of the year by the New York Times. His second book, Taking Mr. Exxon: The Kidnapping of an Oil Giant's President, was released in 2021. He has two sons, and he often volunteers for children’s causes. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
This was a fascinating read for me. It captures history that I want to preserve for my grandchildren. The stories were so vivid that I imagined I was back on Wake Island in 1941 with my mother, father, and brother. -Phil Cooke, son of John Cooke, Jr., Pan Am Airport Manager An absorbing and revealing account of a little-known episode at the outbreak of America's war with Japan. Who even gave a thought to the fact that luxury airliners would be in the air and flying into the middle of the maelstrom in the Pacific at the time Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor and other Allied targets in December, 1941? I, for one, certainly hadn't. Philip Jett's book will appeal to those who enjoy well told, true WWII stories, as well as aviation buffs and those who, like myself, can't resist taking a step back in time. -Stephen Dando-Collins, author of The Big Break: The Greatest American WWII POW Escape Story Never Told Stranded in the Sky takes the reader on romantic flights in luxurious pre-World War II Pan Am Flying Clippers to exotic Pacific destinations-to coral and volcanic islands and bustling cities in the Orient and South Pacific. Then Pearl Harbor was attacked, and author Jett spins a riveting tale of how these massive aircraft, on their regular flights across the Pacific, dodged and weaved over Japanese infested waters and through enemy-controlled skies to bring planes and passengers to safety. Not all would survive in those first days of WWII. -David P. Colley, author of Folly of Generals
