Dimensions
111 x 178 x 28mm
Prisoners of Iranian fundamentalists: 281 men of USAF 45th Tactical Fighter Wing. And one woman.
Brutalised and half-starved, they were held in a military prison deep in Iran. Intelligence confirmed that within days they were to be parcelled out among rival terror groups and dispersed throughout the Middle East.
Any rescue mission had to come in fast - and work first. time.
Colonel Rupert Stansell headed up an unrivalled fighting team: F-111s and the latest F15E Strike Eagle fighter bombers, C-130 transports and an AC-130 gunship, air superiority fighters and an AWACS eye-in-the-sky.
But ranged against him were a fanatical enemy, hostile terrain - and Pentagon inter-service rivalry and incompetence.
'Forces of Eagles' is a superb human drama and high-tech thriller.
