This is the riveting novel of America's powerful high-tech Intruder attack planes, and the men who flew them in Vietnam. It's all here: the terror and exhilaration of wartime flying, and the frustrated rage at sudden, wasteful death. Frank Converse's dramatic reading fully evokes the knife-edge existence of pilot Jake Grafton, who finally decides to do things his way, on the riskiest mission of all. First a best-selling book and now a major motion picture in the tradition of The Hunt for Red October. 2 cassettes --This text refers to the

Stephen Coonts flew A-6's in Vietnam. He has the credentials to write this story, which helps explain its long stay on the best seller list. 

A-6's were called Intruders. Their pilots tackled assignments of dazzling complexity and flew them with daring and  dispatch. But they paid a price...in lost lives, disillusion, incredible tension. 

They had one reward -- exhilaration -- worth the whole candle. You share the airmen's special brand of comradery, the one stabilizing force in an otherwise precarious life, that only an insider knows. 

"Documentary and dramatic, FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER is to the novel what TOP GUN was to film." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)