Chasing the Black Eagle

Bruce Geddes writes a riveting tale of... Just kidding. By all rights, this should have been a riveting tale. Hubert Julian, the Black Eagle of Harlem, certainly lived an exciting, improbable life and was definitely a polarizing figure. How many other people paradropped into NYC while playing a sax?......more

Bruce Geddes is a brilliant storyteller and his latest book is an absorbing historical adventure featuring huge characters, bracing thrills, and captivating deceptions. International in range, epic in scale, it's fast-moving, atmospheric novel and, at the same time, the moving story of a young man’s......more

While I enjoy contemporary novels I find myself always coming back to historical fiction, and within historical fiction I’m always looking for something that I may not know much about. This was one of those books for me. I had never heard of Hubert Julian before I read this book, but the setting of......more

A fascinating read primarily for the daring and at times outlandish schemes dreamed up and mostly executed by Hubert Julian, aka the Black Eagle, that play out in New York City and Ethiopia during the 1920s and 30s, bringing to light the life of a man I'd never heard of before. Through the young and......more

A modern mystery that feels like it has come out of the golden era of the 1920s, but with diverse characters that make the story stand uniquely on its own. In just this one book, the readers is dropped into the Harlem Renaissance, through the Great Depression, and winds up on the verge of Italy's in......more