Horace "Truck" Hardy is a southern preacher's son who joins the Marines to fly jet planes in Vietnam. After being shot down and rescued, Truck is sent back home where he finds a second war awaiting him: a failed farm, a broken marriage, a dangerous job outside the law, and a self-imposed isolation from which a stunning act of violence is his only escape.
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A marine jet pilot is shot down behind enemy lines in North Vietnam; after flying more than 200 missions the crippling paranoia he suffers in the jungle is exacerbated by the abandonment of his wife upon his return to the U.S. "Vivid and powerful," said PW. "Unlike many other Vietnam-era books, "This account offers literary strengths along with graphic adventure . "
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