It was a good investment of time and money. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. This book really left me, someone who read the following two within a few weeks of reading the first, feeling confused. He was an Intruder pilot in … Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. "-Tom Clancy Then a bullet kills his bombardier while they're hitting another 'suspected' truck depot. Par for the course for Stephen Coonts' work! --このテキストは、, 全体的な星の評価と星ごとの割合の内訳を計算するために、単純な平均は使用されません。その代わり、レビューの日時がどれだけ新しいかや、レビューアーがAmazonで商品を購入したかどうかなどが考慮されます。また、レビューを分析して信頼性が検証されます。, さらに、映画もTV番組も見放題。200万曲が聴き放題

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. Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2020. However. Not to spoil anything but they essentially ride off into the sunset and nothing is wrapped up. It feels like it's based on real experience, which makes the military and hardware side of things pretty good stuff and very convincing, but the background romance and self-examination are not well handled. 。クラウドに好きなだけ写真も保存可能。, Flight of the Intruder (Jake Grafton Book 1) (English Edition), Flight of the Intruder (Jake Grafton Book, このショッピング機能は、Enterキーを押すと商品を読み込み続けます。このカルーセルから移動するには、見出しのショートカットキーを使用して、次の見出しまたは前の見出しに移動してください。, 戦闘機が好きって人は多いでしょう。これを読んでから私は攻撃機も好きになりました。 まさに「経験者は語る」世界。臨場感がまるで違う！ ラブシーンはいらないと思いますね、この本には。. It’s briefly hinted at in the intruders from what I remember in the beginning but still. Yet he straps himself into a cockpit every day. "- The Wall Street Journal Grazing the Vietnam treetops at night at just under the speed of sound, A-6 Intruder pilot Jake "Cool Hand" Grafton knows exactly how precarious life is. --The Wall Street Journal, "Coont's pilots are the real McCoy and his compassion for them sustains his story from first page to last . Landing on a heaving aircraft carrier, dodging missiles locked on his fighter, flying through clouds of flak-he knows each flight could be his last. Excellent story; my husband spent his career as an engineer supporting the A-6E Intruder as well as the F-14, F-8, A-7, P-3 and a few other aircraft. The movie like all adoptions of novels was somewhat a change in storyline. I must say that his writing definitely got better as it went along as far as style and character development. Book arrived in excellent condition, and on time If you have an interest in aviation, then this is a "must read", Coonts straps you into the ejector seat, and your adventure begins. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number.

I read "Flight of the intruder" after an absence of decades. It was a good investment of time and money. He said that based on accounts related to him by flight crews during the 'Nam conflict, the adrenaline-filled scenarios and technical details were portrayed pretty accurately with good character development. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. I read "Flight of the intruder" after an absence of decades. Told with an authenticity possible only from someone who has shared the experiences of his protagonist, Flight of the Intruder is widely considered a classic of naval aviation fiction. 商品詳細ページを閲覧すると、ここに履歴が表示されます。チェックした商品詳細ページに簡単に戻る事が出来ます。, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. This book has some of the elements of a good military thriller but tries to hard to also be a romantic novel and to deal with the main character's inner life - neither of which work well. We sit through all this action and craziness to be left with nothing. He tells how it was and explains a few things about the Intruder, carriers and carrier life along the way plus it's a great read. Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2020. One of the finest Naval Aviation Combat novels about the Vietnam War.

One of THE best books I've ever read! It really made me realise how difficult it is to fly these warbirds,how skilled and brave the flight crew are and especially in extreme weather and at night.I did not need to understand the technicalities to realise the stress involved for the flyers. Frank Converse's dramatic reading fully evokes the knife-edge existence of pilot Jake Grafton, who finally decides to do things, Stephen Coonts is a former naval aviator who flew combat missions during the Vietnam War. And it is! To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Pocket; 7th Printing edition (February 15, 1990), Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2017. And don't overlook "Cannibal Queen," a biographical piece which is my favorite Coonts book. Maybe it's time to do something worthwhile. Gotta tie it all up. And then we never really do find out what happened to the guys Jake was serving with. Outstanding read and so well done! No feeling of anything at the last page aside from what the hell just happened. 10/10*. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon.

Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. --Cleveland PlainDealer, The Intruders (Jake Grafton Book 2) (English Edition), Final Flight (Jake Grafton Book 3) (English Edition), Cuba: A Jake Grafton Novel (Jake Grafton Series Book 7) (English Edition), Hong Kong (Jake Grafton Book 8) (English Edition), America (Jake Grafton Book 9) (English Edition), The Minotaur (Jake Grafton Book 4) (English Edition). a sometimes exhilarating, often nightmarish tale.” ―Kirkus Reviews, “Kept me strapped in the cockpit of the author's imagination for a down-and-dirty novel.” ―St. The Grafton Series is the whole package. And when a farmer's bullet hits Morg during an attack mission on yet another suspected truck depot, Grafton is forced to question whether these missions are really worth risking their lives for. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. The ending is horrible.

He kept the interest throughout the story with totally believable characters and the duality of life for flight crews forced to play by political rules. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2016. Hated to see the book end, and I look forward to reading more by this author. And then we never really do find out what happened to the guys Jake was serving with.

A former attorney, he resides with his wife and son in Las Vegas, Nevada. It really made me realise how difficult it is to fly these warbirds,how skilled and brave the flight crew are and especially in extreme weather and at night.I did not need to understand the technicalities to realise the stress involved for the flyers. So I read this series (the first 3) backwards. "Washington Times"Jake and his new bombardier, ice-cold Tiger Cole, are going to pick their own target and hit the enemy where it hurts. So it stands to reason his "expertise" on the subject would flow naturally into the story line - which it does in spades! One of the finest Naval Aviation Combat novels about the Vietnam War. Gotta tie it all up.

More than a flying story, "FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER" is also one of the best novels ever written about the ""Vietnam"" experience. Along with "Cannibal Queen" (a non-fiction look at Coonts & his [then] 14-yr. old son on an aerial odyssey across America in an old restored Boeing PT-17 Stearman Kaydet biplane), this is one of his VERY best works - bar none...!!