This novel is set from the summer of 1917 to late September 1918. Roy Tacker’s outlaw gang is captured during a bank robbery, and is
offered the choice of going to prison or joining the army. They choose the
latter, and soon find themselves embroiled in a World War. Roy’s brother Jace
and another member of the gang, Aaron Gault, eventually join the Army Air
Corps. Arriving at the Allied aerodrome, they are greeted by men named
Wentworth and Allard, who soon depart for a special mission. Richard Wentworth and Kent Allard will later be known as the Spider and the Shadow, respectively, bringing this novel into the CU. Wentworth and Allard are both described as pilots. However, while Allard
was indeed a pilot during the entire length of his service in World War I,
Wentworth served in the French Air Corps until the United States officially
entered the war, at which point he joined the American infantry. Reasoner’s
novel is primarily narrated by Drew Matthews, another member of the Tacker Gang,
in his old age. Drew was not present at Jace and Aaron’s encounter with the two
future vigilantes. Most likely, his friends heard about Wentworth’s service in
the French corps at some point, and assumed that he was still in it, passing
that false info on to Drew when they recounted their exploits to him.

The Crossover UniverseTM is a companion blog to the books Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1-2 by Win Scott Eckert, and the forthcoming Crossovers Expanded Volumes 1-2 by Sean Levin. Material excerpted from Crossovers Volumes 1 & 2 is © copyright 2010-2014 by Win Scott Eckert. All rights reserved. Material excerpted from Crossovers Expanded Volumes 1 & 2 is © copyright 2014-present by Sean Levin. All rights reserved.
Could it be G-8 instead of The Spider given what happened in Adventure of the Peerless Peer?
ReplyDeleteThat's a really interesting suggestion. Maybe.
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