The novel, Flight of the Intruder, written by
             Stephen Coonts, is both realistic and historical fiction.
             This is the riveting novel of America's powerful, high-tech,
             A-6 Intruder attack planes, and the men who flew them in
             Vietnam during the war. The main character of this book,
             Lieutenant Jake "Cool Hand" Grafton, finally decides
             to do things his way on the riskiest mission of them all.
             Lieutenant Jake Grafton is a member of an A-6 squadron
             on an aircraft carrier sailing near the Vietnam coast.
             Jake constantly flies night bombing missions over North
             Vietnam. At the start of the story, Jake, along with
             his other squadron mates, is frustrated by the way the
             war is being fought. Risking your life to bomb a "suspected
             truck park" which looks just like any other part of the
             jungle, or mud flats labeled "boat yard", seems hardly worth
             it to Jake. Jake's buddy and bombardier, Lieutenant
             Morgan McPherson, is killed on one of these pointless
             missions, and soon replaced by Virgil "Tiger" Cole, a
             cynical weapons officer on his third tour of duty. Jake
             finds Cole as an ally for a mission that "would mean
             something". Together, Cole and Jake ponder the notion
             of one unsanctioned mission "downtown", to Hanoi, also
             known as "SAM City", the capitol city of North Vietnam.
             Once they drop eight bombs on the city and witness countless
             secondary explosions, the pilots come back to the aircraft
             carrier and are faced with many conflicts.
             The characters of this book are faced with many
             conflicts throughout the plot. One significant
             conflict is man versus society. Jake is pressed against the
             government in the views of winning the war. Jake believes
             that the only way America can win the war is if the
             government will stop holding them back from trying to
             win the war. He thinks that the government should let them
             bomb places such as Hanoi, instead of bombing "suspec...