The story of the group young American men and women who crossed the Pacific before Pearl Harbour to risk their lives defending the embattled forces of Chiang Kai-Shek's China. These 300 individuals were effectively paid mercenaries, secretly recruited by a mysterious shell company that the federal government had created to circumvent its official stance of non-intervention in the war. A dramatic story of covert operations, Flying Tigers is the unforgettable account of a group of Americans whose actions changed the world.