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Synopsis
Maj. Sam Brooks is an unlikely hero. After being passed over for promotion, his career is at a dead end. His despondency grows when he is forced out of the high-powered world of the fighter pilot into an assignment as a forward air controller (FAC). Now he will be flying the Air Force's most unglamorous airplane, the 0-1 Birddog, low and slow over the Viet Cong-infested Mekong Delta.Editorials
Publishers Weekly -
Harrison ( A Lonely Kind of War ) has grounded his second technothriller in his tour of duty as a forward air controller in Vietnam. The novel opens in 1964, when U.S. involvement in Vietnam is still restricted to the efforts of a handful of professionals: Green Berets, pilots and the forward air controllers, whose Piper Cub-like 0-1s direct the strikes. Maj. Sam Brooks is an unwilling FAC, hounded into the role by Col. Jack Jones, with whose wife he was once intimate. Instead of getting killed, as Jones hopes, Brooks wins three Silver Stars for heroism, finds love with AID (Agency for International Development) official Lee Roget, and sets the stage for a sequel. Harrison tells a rousing story of male bonding and military adventure; the dialogue is crisp and convincing and the action is nonstop. Vividly described high-risk forward air control missions and Special Forces raids climax in a CIA-sponsored (but completely unauthorized) operation in Cambodia, during which Brooks rescues the brave and sexy Roget. He and his swashbuckling comrades are refreshingly free from the angst that dominates so many Vietnam novels. Harrison sidesteps the search for the war's meaning, instead offering readers plenty of action and entertainment. (May)Book Details
Published
May 1, 1992
Publisher
Presidio Pr
Pages
293
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780891414360