The Hunters

With his stirring, rapturous first novel--originally published in 1956 --James

Salter established himself as the most electrifying prose stylist since

Hemingway. Four decades later, it is clear that he also fashioned the most

enduring fiction ever about aerial warfare.

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--sometimes under dubious

circumstances--Cleve's luck runs bad. Other pilots question his guts. Cleve

comes to question himself. And then in one icy instant 40,000 feet above the

Yalu River, his luck changes forever. Filled with courage and despair, eerie

beauty and corrosive rivalry, The Hunters is a landmark in the literature of

war.