Hell Above Earth : The Incredible True Story Of An American WWII  Bomber Commander And The Copilot Ordered To Kill Him
by Stephen Frater

Both the title and subtitle are enough to make you want to dive right into this book. The first couple of chapters were quite interesting and then it turned sour.
During World War II, two men flew a B-17 together in Nazi territory. The pilot was an American named Werner Goering who had nerves of steel. His co-pilot was Jack Rencher. The two of them became great friends. There was only one catch. Goering was the nephew (supposedly) of the head of the Luftwaffe, Reich Marshal Herman Goering and the FBI wanted Werner killed if he surrendered to the Nazis. Rencher was chosen to shoot him.
Unfortunately, the suspense just hung in the air. The book is not riveting as the publisher notes it is. It's actually quite boring, repetitious and diverts, most of the time, from the subject. There's way too much filler about other events and flyers and this could easily have been a magazine article. But, the most annoying thing about the book was the poor editing (it jumped around all over the place) and the amount of missing words, duplication of words in the same sentence, typos, and inverted question marks was a chore to plow through.
I wrote to the author after having read thirty pages to alert him about the numerous errors. He wrote back saying that he knew about it, that it was very frustrating because it was totally out of his control. The publisher was in such a rush to get this book out and it's quite a sloppy mess.
Not recommended.