Phantom Leader

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Description for PHANTOM LEADER by Mark Berent: Aerial combat--it's not just headlines and computer graphics. It's a high-pressure reality of war that only a fighter pilot could des cribe. And no one has captured it as vividly as veteran Mark Berent, whose electrifying new novel puts you in the cockpits of America's most brutal air war.... January, 1968. The full fury of the Tet offensive is about to explode, forever changing the lives of America's bravest warriors: FAC pilot Toby Parker, escaping through the jungle, is trapped in the middle of the tank attack on Lang Tri. Major "Flak" Apple tumbles from the skies and into the hands of the jailers of Hanoi's infamous Hoa Lo Prison. Special Forces Colonel Wolf Lochert is charged with the murder of an enemy agent. USAF Major Court Bannister faces a choice that could make him Vietnam's first air Ace--or end his military career altogether. Show more