The Warbirds

About this book

Libya attempts to shoot down an American C-130 on a mercy mission over the Sahara. The Air Force responds with F4-E Phantoms based in Egypt. Jack Locke a fighter jock as good as he is cocksure downs a Libyan MiG and an international crisis erupts forcing the Wing to relocate to England. Colonel Anthony Muddy Waters must find a way to revitalized the wing and ready it for combat. Driving them hard is the Air Forces hard-nosed chief of staff General Lawrence Sundown Cunningham. Suspecting the Middle East is about to explode again he wants a finely tuned fighting machine available for quick deployment. As the wing begins to show that it can fight a war flares in the Persian Gulf when Iran makes a grab for the Saudi Arabian oilfields. The wing is quickly deployed to the Persian Gulf near Kuwait and in some of the most convincing depictions of aerial combat in modern fiction stops the Iranians. But a price must be paid for peace and the 45th is hung out to dry in an Arab Solution. Muddy Waters and Jack Locke must lead their wing in a desperate withdrawal from the Persian Gulf.