Hogs 6: Death Wish

by Jim DeFelice

Overview

Colonel Michael �Skull� Knowlington has wrestled long and hard to conquer his addiction to alcohol, which started over his deep despair of the deaths of pilots under his command in Vietnam. Disgusted with himself after falling off the wagon one night, Knowlington decides to quit the Air Force. A new hotshot, Major Horace �Hack� Preston, seems to be after his command, using Devil Squadron as a stepping stone to a generalship. Hack doesn�t hide his disdain of the Warthog A-10A as an inferior plane. He is just as disrespectful towards Knowlington, whom he knew as an �alky� colleague in the Pentagon. Knowlington is willing to make it easy for Preston, but fate intervenes when Devil Squadron is ordered behind enemy lines for a brief, surgical operation to pick up a couple of downed British pilots. Captain Bristol Wong convinces Knowlington that a specially-equipped enemy MiG-29 sighted in the same area would be a prize worth examining � and Major Preston, the only one to have �flown� a MiG during a peacetime demonstration, sees his opportunity to clinch his bid for command of Devil Squadron by snatching the enemy plane and the glory for himself. The only problem is the squadron is one pilot short. Should Knowlington take to the air one last time? It seems everyone in Devil Squadron has something to prove on this mission.
HOGS #6: DEATH WISH is the sixth in Jim DeFelice�s HOGS First Gulf War series, focusing on a colorful, fictional group of brave pilots flying A-10As during the First Gulf War in 1991.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149756544
Publisher:	Black Coyote Inc.
Publication date:	06/30/2014
Series:	Jim DeFelice's HOGS FIRST GULF WAR series , #6
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	644 KB

About the Author

#1 New York Times Bestselling Author Jim DeFelice (AMERICAN SNIPER and CODE NAME: JOHNNY WALKER), based this dramatic, historical action series on actual events. Filled with blistering action and gritty authenticity, this is a powerful and exciting tribute to the men and women who flew these hard-working, air-to-ground fighter-bombers. Jim has also written two WWII histories, OMAR BRADLEY: GENERAL AT WAR (the first biography on WWII 5-star General Omar Bradley) and RANGERS AT DIEPPE (a look at the disastrous first raid the newly formed U.S. Army Rangers unit participated in against the Germans in WWII) Jim is also the author and co-author of more than 30 novels about the price that war and terrorism exact on the individuals whose job it is to protect America from harm.