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(More customer reviews)"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 novels, describes the personal conflicts within the air wing (an antagonist from the first novel returns), the practical jokes that aviators carry out on each other and the mixed feelings that fighting a "video game war" causes.
When Punk gets shot down, this all changes. What follows is Harold Coyle one better, an odyssey through war-torn Afghanistan, where Punk meets CIA agents, warlords, and special operations troops, all characters that leap off the pages and were probably based off real people that Carroll met.
The life of Punk is wrought from Carroll's experience- he was an F-14 RIO- but the gross majority of the book truly expresses his talent in that it is a product of research on his behalf and is still so realistic. He describes the sights, sounds, and (yes) smells of life in Afghanistan like he was there. And that is just a few reasons why this is one of the greatest thrillers written... and I have read quite a few.
Coonts has moved on to action-style thrillers... Carroll has more than replaced him as the definitive author of aviation thrillers.
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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...
