Kracek

Kracek is a fighter pilot as capable of destroying his rivals with words as he is with bullets, a man as courageous on the ground as he is in the air, who sees his enemies not as faceless, inhuman beings, but as good men and women on the other side of a war none of us want.

The author stood watch around the world to ensure the cold war remained so, sat in the cockpit of an F-100 poised to strike Russian missile sites in Cuba (his wife's homeland), and flew more than one hundred missions in Vietnam. As a young Marine in another war, he watched the fighter jets sweep low over a scarred Korean landscape and knew...his future was up there, with them.