Wingman #3 - The Lucifer Crusade

Wingman was definitely one of the best series of books marketed as Men's Adventure fiction during the Reagan administration. In this third volume, after the (temporary) taming of the American West in the second book (the Circle War), Hawk Hunter and friends have to head off for far corners of the gl......more

Good read if you like military aircraft It’s a really good read if you like military aircraft and post apocalyptic type stuff. My only complaint (and why it’s 4 stars and not 5) is that even though it’s fiction, some of the modifications made to the aircraft are just not possible and overly fictional......more

No matter how many times I read this book, I always wonder......will the make it to the canal this time? Intense and exciting book to read.......more

This review comes after the third time I've read this book. For those new to the series, the United States and its NATO allies won against surprise attack by the Soviet Union in the early days of World War 3 in 1987 but lost the war because of a traitorous US Vice President. In the aftermath, the US......more

I read this book about 8000 times as a kid, and seeing it on the shelf back home had to read it again. Almost the platonic ideal of pulp, I doubt more than ten pages goes by without an action scene, and stunningly not terrible. There's always a strange likability (which isn't really strange at all w......more