The Intruders

Being a veteran of the 1st Cavalry Division in 1972, I was in Vietnam when Stephen Coonts was flying missions off carriers. Many times the Navy was there to help our missions.I like reading Stephen's novels, because he tells it like it is, and like it was. Too many have misperceptions about our war. We were just young, American kids who answered our country's call, as in every war that we have ever fought. Stephen takes the reader right into the cockpits, and the minds of the fliers. I am forever in his debt.

In this book Coonts concentrates on action on an aircraft carrier with plenty of naval aviation action. Naval Air being the long arm of American Foreign Policy is depicted here in action. Jake Grafton the main character is interesting and at times reflects upon himself to see whether or not to get out of the navy of not, marriage with his sweetheart Callie is on his mind. Flap Le beau his Bombardier/Nav. puts a bit of fun and flare into the story. Although I'm not a pilot but an enthusiast, Coonts puts a lot of emphasis on what the pilots are thinking of while in the cockpit, no matter at night or during the day, as a reader you get to feel what the pilot and his Navigator are really feeling at the time.THIS STORY WOULD MAKE A GREAT MOVIE about the life for an aviator living on an aircraft carrier, we have enough movies about the grunts on the ground,here is a chance to make a movie about aviators on aircraft carriers as they are America's long arm of Foreign Policy.

This is a good book. Stephen Coonts does a great job depicting life on a MARINE aircraft carrier. He goes into great detail about how things work on the aircraft carrier. The way that the book is written you can get a good visual picture of what is happening. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes anything that has to do with airplanes or warfare

Jake Grafton has to teach marines what it's like to be on an aircraft carrier. Landing and taking off on a slipery deck, learning all the parts to a carrier and how to put up with Flap LeBeau. This book you can't put down, I couldn't.

I read 'Flight of the Intruder' some ten years ago, and it was with some anticipation that I picked up 'The Intruders.' There are few books that deal with the period immediately after Vietnam, and although this is fiction, this depicts in brutal clarity the way Vietnam had changed America, both inside and outside of its military. 'The Intruders' is a thinker's book, in spite of its action. I recommend it highly - there are few that equal its insight and focus for what it covers