by James Salter
From the start I was all in and could not put the book down, though it begins simply enough with the weather.-- “A winter night, black and frozen, was moving over Japan, over the choppy waters to the east . . . Cleve stood at the window, looking out.” --Cleve is a fighter pilot, a captain, awaiting ...
Cleve arrives in Korea eager to join the ranks of pilot aces. He has the licks. The Hunters tells the tale of Cleve and other Korean War pilots, the small society in which they live, what they value, how they see themselves. It is a well-written war novel, very masculine. Females appear briefly, in ...
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