Flight of the Intruder

Flight of the Intruder hasn't stood the test of time very well. There are elements that are excellently executed and some which dullen the experience. Coonts attention to aeronautical and naval detail is second to none, with seamless narration of realistic environments and dialogue upon a air

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carrier during the Vietnam war. The scenario has been well researched and conveys the culture and emotions well. The action scenes are choreographed tightly and with effect. What lets Flight of the Intruder down is that a slow burning approach to a military novel now seem dated in a world full of breakneck speed thrillers. The character building is central to the book, rather than the plot, which pays off in the finale, yet makes it arduous going at times. The action scenes are also too similar; a little too cookie cutter and although the detail is meticulous they unbalance the book, which teeters between a melodrama and action genres. Overall it feels like an '80s movie, unsurprisingly, and where it might have been a great read then, now it's just a good one.

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This wasn't very interesting, even if it was a local author. I'm not a pilot, so I got nothing from the story, and it was waaaay too whiny and anti war. I'm not going to read anything else of his.

First and last book I read and could not put down!! It's was a great book. The move as always sucked compared to the book.

I don't know why, but I had expected more from Flight of the Intruder. I vaguely remembered the movie of this novel from the early 1990's and had the book sitting on my shelf, so I thought that I'd give it a read.

Overall, it's not THAT bad, but it's not really that good either. Flight of the

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Intruder falls smack dab in the middle-of-the-road category to me. The storyline is ok but fairly predictable. The characters really don't have a whole lot of depth and the dialog is really nothing to write home about. Also, for an action/adventure style of novel, the action scenes just didn't do much for me.

I wouldn't really recommend this book. However, there is a series of ten books following this character. Maybe it just struck me in the wrong way. I do own one other book in the series, Under Siege, so maybe I'll give it a try sometime and see if that changes my mind. In the meantime, I won't be holding my breath.

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Flight of the Intruder, by Stephen Coonts (read 7 Oct 2016) The author was a Navy pilot in the Vietnam War and after the war he went to Colorado U. law school. This is his first book, published in 1986, and he has since publshed some 36 books! I found thsi book often exciting and it seemed

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authentic--the great amount of technical talk convinced me that the author knew lots of things but detracted a bit from the flow of the book. The events were somewhat at times not very likely but the behavior of Navy men on liberty reminded me of my knowledge of Navy life over 60 years ago. There is a lot of spine-tingling events and probably the attitude of some of the fictional characters accurately reflected what may have been an attitude of many men in Vietnam in 1952, controversial as it was. I liked the book enough that I plan to read the book which is its immediate sequel, The Intruders, just to see what Jake Grafton did after the serious difficulty the book ends with.

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Fast-paced and authentically styled, readers who go into this wanting a book that reads like Top Gun, but with less of an eye to romance, will enjoy this. It's meant to give a view into a fighter's cockpit and travel with a military swagger, and it does so. From chapter to chapter, it's hard to put

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down, and the characters come across the page as real, careful and flawed and cocky as pilots must be. I haven't seen the movie, though now it's more on my radar than it was before, but I'm looking forward to getting to this book's sequel.

For readers who want what this promises, I'd absolutely recommend it.

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