Bob Drury, Tom Clavin: Lucky 666 (2016, Simon & Schuster)
368 pages
English language
Published Jan. 17, 2016 by Simon & Schuster.
"From the authors of the New York Times bestselling The Heart of Everything That Is and Halsey's Typhoon comes the dramatic, untold story of a daredevil bomber pilot and his misfit crew who fly their lone B-17 into the teeth of the Japanese Empire in 1943, engage in the longest dogfight in history, and change the momentum of the War in the Pacific--but not without making the ultimate sacrifice"--Baker & Taylor.
"From the authors of the New York Times bestselling The Heart of Everything That Is and Halsey's Typhoon comes the dramatic, untold story of a daredevil bomber pilot and his misfit crew who fly their lone B-17 into the teeth of the Japanese Empire in 1943, engage in the longest dogfight in history, and change the momentum of the War in the Pacific--but not without making the ultimate sacrifice"--Baker & Taylor.
Great read, it reads like a movie narrative and at a good clip but with plenty of vivid details. Wonderful story and feel it would have been a better mini-series for HBO than the 3 stories that slogged along in The Pacific.
