Air Boat: Love is an Adventure

Air boat is a can't-put-it-down, stay-up-all-night, tell-all-your-friends triumph. In his debut novel, Jacek has delivered an indelible protagonist and an unforgettable love story.

As vividly wrought as any characters Donna Tartt has ever conjured, Luke and Stella and their beguiling courtship will remain in your head and heart way after finishing this delight of a tale. Jacek's writing is fresh, immediate and full of surprising and wholly original moments of magic and poetry. He takes us on a good old-fashioned adventure, filled with cinema-worthy details of the American West, while endearing us to the haunted yet heroic man at the center of the story (as well as his lovable canine sidekick, Saint). Jacek's scenes of flirtation and early love are some of the most enticingly charming I can remember reading, and the novel’s climax unfolds with incomparable imagination and tenderness.

—Caitlin McNally, Senior Producer, National Geographic