Jean-Louis Thibodeaux has joined the U.S. Air Force with the intention of becoming a jet pilot, but through a turn of unexpected and harrowing events ends up flying helicopter rescue missions in Southeast Asia. This novel chronicles his formidable encounters with bureaucratic generals, wannabe heroes, enemy aircraft, brutal weather, darkness, fear, and death.
Flying Blind, the gripping sequel to Tony Jordan’s debut novel The Train, is the story of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances—men who, in the air, become almost supermen, who are willing to die “that others may live.” It is also the story of an anonymous war of clandestine missions deep into enemy territory in Southeast Asia, and of the spies and spymasters who depend on special missions aviators to take them in—and, more importantly, bring them out.
