Flight From Ashiya
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - some tears. Page Condition: yellowed with foxing. Markings: unmkd. Binding condition: Good.
When a desperate distress call pierces the storm-lashed skies over the Sea of Japan, an elite Air Rescue Service crew stationed at Ashiya Air Base is scrambled into action — plunging headlong into one of the most harrowing missions of their careers. Elliott Arnold's Flight from Ashiya chronicles the lives of three airmen — each haunted by a private wound from the past — as they race against time and nature to save the survivors of a sunken vessel. Arnold masterfully weaves flashback and present action together, constructing a taut, psychologically rich narrative that interrogates courage, guilt, and redemption against the backdrop of Cold War-era military service. The novel stands as a gripping testament to the men who fly not into battle, but into the abyss of catastrophe itself — and the question of whether they will emerge whole remains the novel's most electrifying tension.
Author: Elliott Arnold
Format: Hardback
Genre: Adventure fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - some tears. Page Condition: yellowed with foxing. Markings: unmkd. Binding condition: Good.
When a desperate distress call pierces the storm-lashed skies over the Sea of Japan, an elite Air Rescue Service crew stationed at Ashiya Air Base is scrambled into action — plunging headlong into one of the most harrowing missions of their careers. Elliott Arnold's Flight from Ashiya chronicles the lives of three airmen — each haunted by a private wound from the past — as they race against time and nature to save the survivors of a sunken vessel. Arnold masterfully weaves flashback and present action together, constructing a taut, psychologically rich narrative that interrogates courage, guilt, and redemption against the backdrop of Cold War-era military service. The novel stands as a gripping testament to the men who fly not into battle, but into the abyss of catastrophe itself — and the question of whether they will emerge whole remains the novel's most electrifying tension.