Scott O'Grady

We just don't have many fighter pilots getting shot down these days. So it was interested to read about someone in the modern Air Force having to deal with this situation. Reading about his experience in the AF prior to the incident was pleasant too. Not every base has fighter culture since not every base has fighters. And clearly, not every fighter base has the same culture either.

It wasn't the best written story and they jumped around a little bit in the book but it mostly works.

This novel is about Captain Scott O'Grady. He was a fighter pilot for the US. His plane was shot down in unknown territory. He had to live off of his surroundsings for a while until he was captured by the enemy. He was kept there for a long time and then was finally rescued. The book includes pictures of Captain O'Grady throughout his life.

Wow. Solid story.

This is a very readable account of the shooting down of O'Grady's plane over Bosnia in 1994 and his subsequent 6 days evasion of Bosnian Serb soldiers who were intend on either killing him or capturing him.