| There has never been a novel of man and flight like this one. Eagles flies into and beyond today s headlines to tell a brazenly exciting story about the Air Force s new supersonic F-15 Eagle, a space-age fighter superior to all others, sleek, brutal, sophisticated, perilous. And Eagles is also a human drama of the men and women who fly it, maintain it, love it, hate it, and sometimes die in it: Major Eric "Topper" James, the fighter pilots fighter pilot, top of his class at the Air Force Academy, the icy paragon picked by the computer to fly the supersecret Nightwing Eagle to the limits of the earth s atmosphere but a man who carries a dread, unknown secret within him that could destroy him at any moment. Candy James, his wife, beautiful and de- spairing, enmeshed in an illicit affair that can bring only more heartache to her marriage. Captain Simon "Moonbird" McAllister, Topper s wingman, the "space freak" from MIT whose contempt for the military is matched only by his talent for trouble and his consuming desire to qualify for experimental test pilot school and assignment to the top-secret "Hot Victor" spaceship program andto that eud, his plans include marriage toNancyGlass, the jaunty daughter of the pow-erful Chairman of the Senate Armed ServicesCommittee. |
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