James Boatner’s first novel, Unlawful Flight, chronicles the story of two strangers—Carlo Matranga, the Godfather of the New Orleans Mafia, and Stephen Goddard, a discredited airline pilot—whose lives become inextricably linked by fate and common cause. Goddard and Matranga become reluctant allies and unlikely co-conspirators to flee New Orleans and federal prosecution. With the FBI, Interpol, and the Mafia one step behind, the two fugitives embark on a globe-hopping, adrenaline-pumping journey of adventure and intrigue, exposing a tangled web of underworld crime, international conspiracy, and governmental corruption at the highest levels.

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