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Overview

A smash bestseller that spent over six months on the New York Times bestseller list, FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER became an instant classic. No one before or since ever captured the world of Navy carrier pilots with the gripping realism of Vietnam veteran Stephen Coonts, who lived the life he wrote about. More than a flying story, FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER is also one of the best novels ever written about the Vietnam experience. It's all here—the flying, the dying, the blood and bombs and bullets, and the sheer joy—and terror—of life at full throttle.

"GRIPPING...SMASHING."?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. 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. Yet he straps himself into a cockpit every day.

"EXTRAORDINARY!"—Tom Clancy

Then a bullet kills his bombardier while they're hitting another 'suspected' truck depot. Jake wonders what his friend died for—and why? Hitting pointless targets selected by men piloting desks just doesn't make sense. Maybe it's time to do something worthwhile. Something that will make a difference...

"SUPERBLY WRITTEN."?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. But to get there and back in one piece is going to take a lot of nerve, even more skill, and an incredible amount of raw courage. Before it's over, they're going to fly into hell.

"When Grafton is at the controls of his Intruder, the novel comes alive with a jolt."

?Washington Post Book World

After too many senseless missions, too many pointless deaths, Jake "Cool Hand" Grafton is a man ready to explode. Now, with a renegade bombadier named Tiger, Jake's flying his A-6 Intruder jet deep into North Vietnam, on one last hell-bent strike for honor--and victory.

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Reviewers praised Flight of the Intruder for its vivid descriptions of life in the cockpit. "When Grafton is at the controls of his Intruder, the novel comes alive with a jolt," remarked Reid Beddow inWashington Post Book World. Some critics, however, felt the novel had its weak moments. For example, David Holahan in Chicago Tribune Books faulted the "obligatory `love interest' chapters, which are unconvincing and distracting." Holahan nonetheless applauded the author's "compelling tale of aerial warfare" and affirmed that "Coonts' accounts of the riveting drama of combat flights are first rate, as are the scenes of wisecracking camaraderie aboard ship and on leave ashore." Beddow, moreover, concluded that "Coonts . . . has written a first novel of impressive power and authority."
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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.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312939472
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Publication date: 6/27/2006
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • Sales rank: 116,014
  • Series: Jake Grafton Series , #1
  • Product dimensions: 4.17 (w) x 6.72 (h) x 1.25 (d)

Meet the Author

Stephen Coonts
Stephen Coonts

Author of 13 New York Times Bestsellers, STEPHEN COONTS flew A-6 Intruders from the deck of the USS ENTERPRISE during the Vietnam War. A graduate of West Virginia University and the University of Colorado School of Law, he and his wife Deborah still fly whenever they have the time. They reside in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Biography

One of America's premier authors of action-adventure thrillers, Stephen Coonts broke into publishing in 1986 with his national bestseller Flight of the Intruder, hailed as one of the best novels ever written about flying and the camaraderie of men at war.

A veteran naval aviator who flew the A-6 Intruder during the Vietnam War, Coonts has followed his debut smash with many more novels featuring his protaganist Jake Grafton, each full of the riveting action and page-turning suspense that has gained him a legion of loyal fans.

In addition to his Jake Grafton books, Coonts also has written stand-alone thrillers, a smattering of sci fi and nonfiction, and the Deep Black series, which is co-authored with Jim DeFelice.

Good To Know

Coonts once held jobs as a taxi driver, a police officer, and an attorney.

He was a trustee of West Virginia Wesleyan College from 1990-98 and was inducted into the West Virginia University Academy of Distinguished Alumni in 1992.

    1. Date of Birth:
      July 19, 1946
    2. Place of Birth:
      Morgantown, West Virginia
    1. Education:
      B.A., West Virginia University, 1968; J.D., University of Colorado, 1979

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 5, 2012

    E book....dont waste your money

    Read the sample....scanning mistakes everywhere. Save your money

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 4, 2011

    eBook is HORRIBLE

    Just tried the sample and couldn't get through the first 4 pages the errors were so bad. "Jake" is often replaced with "lake" and every "the" is "die" english version, hello. There are also countless other errors.

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  • Posted October 5, 2010

    Buy this book in hard copy, not E format!!!

    While the novel is well written and would hold my rapt attention, the massive number of "typos" make reading it akin to decripting code.
    I'm not talking a few typos, which seems to be the rule with NOOK E books, but rather hundreds per chapter. Don't you people edit anything before selling it?
    I really feel bad for the author and wonder if he knows about this.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 30, 2010

    DON'T BUY EBOOK VERSION!! tons of errors

    Something got lost in translation when converted to ebook format. Random words seem to replace the original ones. I just flipped a couple pages and counted more than 10. Stay away for now.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 27, 2010

    Great book, lousy ebook

    The scan for the ebook version is full of errors making it close to unreadable

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  • Posted April 20, 2009

    Content great, format not so much

    Really enjoyed this book after I got a clean copy. Unfortunately, the one I bought from B&N had such smeared print it was unreadable. Only book I've ever bought that had this problem but I will be sure to check out all future purchases before paying for them.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 31, 2008

    Super Read

    As an Air Force F-4 fighter jock of the same era, I'm amazed at the accuracy and excitement of 'flying with' Jake Grafton over Vietnam. I just read the book and the one, main thing I got from it was it's accuracy. My wife has been after me for years trying me to get me tell her and the kids what it was like flying in Vietnam and I've just brushed off as 'doing business.' Now, I'm going to get her to read 'The Flight of the Intruder.' I don't think she'll understand but, it is all there - everything she has been wanting me to talk about for 40 years. It brings back a lot of memories - some good and some not so good. Wayne Erwin Colonel, USAF 'Retired'

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 4, 2006

    That was the book ever read more Stephen Coonts.

    There were million of book red any kind story like Final Flight just when good book has action thriler senses about saying about Jake Grafton was so sure making up story for looking about the A-6 Intruder were flown the new guy Tiger Coles certain reaction to blame about the character.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 16, 2002

    Amazing

    My favorite book!!! I think that this book really shows war and the effect it has on those who fight them. This book got me hooked on reading books of this genre. I've read it 10 times & counting & still enjoy every page. Stephen Coonts is among the best!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 27, 2001

    Better than the movie

    I saw the movie first but the book was 10 times better and much more believable. Having served in the Army during Viet Nam, I am familiar with the type of electronics the author describes in this book, including radar, IFOF etc. The flight and combat descriptions both from a technical and tactical view point were well researched. I am looking forward to reading the nest book about Jake Grafton.

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