In the air war over North Vietnam, U.S. Navy pilots Mike Santy and Tim Boyle fly on two fronts--the former piloting an A-7 Corsair over enemy territory and the latter rescuing downed pilots. Reprint.
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This impressively detailed and highly suspenseful technothriller is set in 1972, when the carrier pilots flying against North Vietnam and the senior officers who send them out have long since lost any illusions that victory can be reached. What remain are professional pride and fighting man's courage--qualities that lead all ranks to take awesome risks to rescue pilots downed in enemy territory. At the cutting edge are the helicopter crews of North Sea Air Rescue. Lt. Tim Boyle flies a Sea King rescue chopper; his closest friend, Mike Santy, is in charge of an A-7 Corsair. First novelist Carroll, a veteran rescue pilot with extensive Vietnam experience, uses Boyle, Santy and task force commander Rear Admiral Welch to put readers on the flag bridge and the flight deck, and in the ready room and wardroom of the U.S.S. Concord . Deftly manipulating an understated prose, Carroll balances descriptions of strike and rescue missions into the North with an empathetic analysis of command problems at the end of a lost war. This auspicious debut stands in good comparison with Flight of the Intruder as a fictional portrait of naval air operations in Vietnam.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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June 1972. Life among pilots on the aircraft carrier Concord in the South China Sea. Tim Boyle is a search and rescue (SAR) helicopter pilot who retrieves air crews when they crash in North Vietnam. His best friend is Mike Santy, an attack pilot. There is a plot, of sorts, involving a mission that goes badly wrong, but the meat of the book is the complex, dangerous, expensive, ineffably exhilarating machinery of war, and the highly trained men who operate it. Dripping with sentimentality and false modesty, predictable, adulatory but realistic, exciting, and extremely readable, this will be grabbed up by the same people who read David Poyer's The Gulf ( LJ 8/90) and Tom Clancy's books. Recommended for most public libraries.
- Edwin B. Burgess, U.S. Army TRALINET Ctr., Fort Monroe, Va.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Edwin B. Burgess, U.S. Army TRALINET Ctr., Fort Monroe, Va.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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