Captain Cleve Connell arrives in Korea with a single goal to become an aceone of that elite fraternity of jet pilots who have downed five MIGs. But ashis fellow... » 

Captain Cleve Connell arrives in Korea with a single goal to become an aceone of that elite fraternity of jet pilots who have downed five MIGs. But ashis fellow airmen rack up kill after kill sometimes under dubiouscircumstances Cleves luck runs bad. Other pilots question his guts. Clevecomes to question himself. And then in one icy instant 40000 feet above theYalu River his luck changes forever. Filled with courage and despair eeriebeauty and corrosive rivalry James Salters luminous first novel is a landmarkmasterpiece in the literature of war.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 other airmen rack up kill after kill sometimes under dubious circumstances Cleves 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 James Salters luminous first novel is a landmark masterpiece in the literature of war. «