The Hunters
by:
James Salter (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B008PSP2AW
Publish date: September 1st 2012
Publisher: Counterpoint
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
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 ...