Wow! I don't often recommend a book on this blog but I truly enjoyed this read... It took me a while to get up to speed with this book, but once I did it just kept building.

Using an interesting narrative style, Halliday succeeds in weaving the events of close to a year's worth of flying into reflective moments of time during a particularly eventful flight.

Some of the characterizations seem very "Air America" but that that could be due to the similarity in the subject matter. There are, however, some very good flying sequences. One of my favorites is a flight in one of these "flying box cars" flying in ground effect over a river.

I would definitely rate this as a must read for any pilot or anyone with an interest in flying or aviation during the Vietnam War.