The Ace

Four Americansa twentyyearold social outcast, a breezily iconoclastic Army officer, a ruthless U.S. senator, and a guiltridden heiressare inexorably drawn together in their struggles to deal with America's chaotic involvement in World War I. Their interwoven destinies lead from povertystricken slums through the opulence of 19171918 Washington, London, and Paris and, climactically, into the Western Front's vicious aerial combat, which establishes the matrix for all air warfare to come.