The Hunters

Informationen zum Autor James Salter (1925-2015) was the author of the novels Solo Faces, Light Years, A Sport and a Pastime, The Arm of Flesh (revised as Cassada ) and The Hunters ; the memoirs Gods of Tin and Burning the Days ; and the collection, Dusk and Other Stories which won the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award. Klappentext James Salter is the author of the novels Solo Faces, Light Years, A Sport and a Pastime, The Arm of Flesh (revised as Cassada), and The Hunters; the memoirs Gods of Tin and Burning the Days; and the collection, Dusk and Other Stories which won the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award. He lives in Colorado and on Long Island. Zusammenfassung Captain Cleve Connell arrives in Korea with a single goal: to become an ace, one of that elite fraternity of jet pilots who have downed five MIGs. But as his fellow airmen rack up kill after kill, Cleve's luck runs bad. Other pilots question his guts. And then in one icy instant 40,000 feet above the Yalu River, his luck changes forever.

Product details

• Authors: James Salter, Salter James
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.03.2007
• EAN: 9780141188645
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118864-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; FICTION / War & Military, War & combat fiction, War, combat and military adventure fiction