Review: 6 stars is not good enough!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 1, 2013
I seldom write reviews, but I had to on this one!  As an old retired Air Force puke, I must admit this is the best "flying" book I've ever laid my weary eyes on!! I could not put this book down and completed it in two long nights -- I had to keep turning pages to find out what happened next!!  Dan adds to his excellent flying scenes, the extra element of a demented warrior, who has become the ultimate flying mercenary and ruthless killer.  This uniquely skilled warrior is out for revenge against the senior officers he believes were responsible for the death of his family.  What he really is out to "destroy" are several unethical officers who rose through the ranks, not through skill, honor, and competence but through politics, arrogance, and back stabbing.  Frankly, I know that type of senior officer, and saw it many times in my 10 years in the Army and 20 years in the Air Force.  It seems that all military organizations have their political disciples and Dan Hampton captures the nature of these folks perfectly.  Fortunately, the "Sandman" killer types do not appear very often, either in real life or in the military. However, sometimes I'm sure most real warriors thought about becoming a "Sandman" if only for a day.