Cassada

By James Salter

Categories: Literature & Fiction

James Salter flew fighter jets for the US Air Force, and this 2000 novel, a reworking of his 1961 book The Arm of Flesh, returns to that world. Lieutenant Robert Cassada joins a fighter squadron stationed in West Germany in the 1950s, eager to prove himself to pilots who doubt him. Operations officer Isbell takes him under his wing as the squadron flies in punishing weather. Salter writes about flight, rank and the bonds between men in spare, exact prose.

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