Flight of the Intruder

Coonts, Stephen; Stephen Coonts (Edited and Introduced by)

ISBN 10: 0870212001 / ISBN 13: 9780870212000

Published by Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 1986

About this Item

329 pp. Solidly bound copy and dj with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Price cut from inside front flap.

Seller Inventory # 2iCi0030

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flight of the Intruder
• Publisher: Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870212001
• ISBN 13: 9780870212000
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Moira M. Megargee (Jacket Design)
• Printing: 2nd Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction-Military Fiction, Warfare, Techno-Thriller
  • Fiction-Fictional Novel, Literary Fiction & Novel

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Synopsis

During the Vietnam War, attack pilot Jake Grafton, struggling with his conscience and trying to find meaning to all the senseless death and destruction, decides to plan an illegal bombing raid into the very heart of Hanoi

Reviews

With this well-crafted first novel, the publishers of The Hunt for Red October again demonstrate a sure eye for picking winners in the thriller genre. Jake Grafton is an A-6 Intruder pilot during the Vietnam War who flies his bomber on sorties past enemy flak and SAM missiles, and then must maneuver his plane, often at night, onto the relatively small deck of an aircraft carrier. Former Navy flyer Coonts gives an excellent sense of the complexities of modern air raids and how nerve-wracking it is, even for the best airmen, to technically solve sudden problems over and over, knowing that even a twist of fatea peasant wildly firing a rifle from a fieldcould wipe out the crew. Grafton alternates between remorse over the fate of his unseen Vietnamese victims on the ground and a gung-ho "let's win this war" sentiment that lashes at both policymakers who select less-than-important targets for the dangerous missions and advocates for peace back in the States. The action, though, is realistically detailed and absorbing. 75,000 first printing; $80,000 ad/promo.
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