Mark Farmer

A twenty-three-year-old successfully navigates a massive aircraft over open water for eighteen hours - and it's the first time he has been up in a plane. That’s what happened to Mark Farmer just after Pearl Harbor. The aircraft was Pan American's famed Clipper, flying from San Francisco to Hawaii. After the war, Farmer navigated for both commercial airlines and the new "non-skeds," having adventures in Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America. He was involved in a highjacking, met the pope, evacuated political refugees, was befriended by a revolutionary leader, and flew during the Korean Airlift and Viet Nam Airlift. For anyone who lived through these times Flight to Anywhere will bring a flood of memories. For those too young, to remember even the Viet Nam war, Farmer paints a lively picture of a small-town boy who suddenly finds himself in places like Funafuti and the Azores and dealing with middle-eastern millionaires and plane loads of monkeys. His biography explores his expeditions in a frontier not previously available to his ancestors.… (més)

I liked this one, but it felt a bit rushed. I was worried that readers who had not read Identity Crisis might miss out on quite a bit, but the volume gives you enough background and summary to catch up. This was good because I have read Identity Crisis, but it has been a while. In the aftermath of the events from Identity Crisis, the heroes have to deal with the consequences of their actions, including a bunch of villains very pissed off over what the league did to them last time. You get to decide how ethical or moral the league's actions were given their desire to protect loved ones. The volume does end in a cliffhanger, as it is setting up for the larger Infinite Crisis event (a volume I have also read). If nothing else, a nice quick read, but it is clear it is just a story to set up something bigger down the road.… (més)