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List Price: $6.99Price: $2.99 You Save: $4.00 (57%)as of 09/02/2010 11:09 EDT
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
Fabric Type: 9780451211491
Legal Disclaimer: 0451211499
Maximum Color Depth: Signet
Metal Type: Signet
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 384
Total External Bays Free: March 02, 2004
Total Firewire Ports: Signet
Total Parallel Ports: March 02, 2004
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Former fighter pilot Ward Carroll packs enough action and honesty to satisfy readers, critics, and Navy veterans alike.
On a mission over Central Afghanistan, Punk is hit-and taken captive. After he escapes, the challenge isn't over. Because now Punk must navigate through the war-torn country to face a world of resistance fighters, warlords, CIA undercover ops, and corrupt officers on both sides of the fray...
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The last book in the "Punk" series, Punk's Fight takes place during the early days of warfare in Afghanistan. This book takes a larger stretch from reality than the previous two, as numerous deus ex machina events, such as both the Skipper and CAG perishing after a bad cat shot, Punk and Spud shooting down their own aircraft due to a fusing difficulty with a bomb, and Punk spending days on end integrated into a Special Forces team on the ground in Afghanistan drive the plot. Spud has now had to eject ... Read More
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Mr. Carroll has the unique ability to merge today's headlines with believable fiction to create a compelling story. This book takes Punk into every aviator's worst nightmare: on the ground in the middle of a shooting war. As he struggles to keep up with the Special Ops Grunts, he realizes that the true heroes in modern war are not the "Glam-Rock" aviators with their Ray-Ban shades and cocky, presumed invincibility. He is humbled (as we all should be) by the selfless dedication and bravery of the troops ... Read More
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Punk's Fight wasn't what followers f Ward Carroll would call typical. Instead of numerous scenes in the cockpit, we were treated to a vivid story of a pilot shot down.
Carroll's storyline included the usual action-flight scenes I was expecting but took a turn when Punk was shot down. The events on the ground seemed a little too good to be true. For such a short book, it contained a lot of story lines. None were developed like they had been in previous books. Punk's captivity under a Chechan ... Read More
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Lt. "Punk" Reichart, the fictional F-14 driver introduced in "Punk's War" is back. ("Fight" is actually the third of the 3 books Mr. Carroll has written to date - and if I missed "Punk's Wing", "Fight" was the best excuse to rectify that oversight as soon as possible). In "Fight" Punk is back flying F-14 fighters in combat - now in strike missions against the Taliban in Afghanistan in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. (Though Tomcats had served as interceptors exclusively since entering the US fleet at the end ... Read More
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"Punk's Fight" the third installment in a series about an F-14 fighter pilot, is quite possibly the best. The whole series is consistent in that it describes life in an F-14 squadron like you were there... but this book takes it to another level.
It begins where "Punk's Wing" left off... during Operation Enduring Freedom, when the main characters were carrying out strike missions over Afghanistan... and the first section of the book carries on with this narrative. This part, the most similar to the previous ... Read More
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