Flight of the Intruder — Stephen Coonts

The A-6 Intruder pilots--an elite cadre of Navy fliers, rowdy on shore, restless on ship, hunters in the Vietnam skies. Jake "Cool Hand" Grafton is one of the best: a quiet man strapped into the cockpit of a million-dollar killing machine, slamming through the air just beneath the speed of sound. But after too many senseless missions, too many pointless deaths, Grafton is a man ready to explode. Suddenly, with a renegade bombardier named Tiger, he's flying his Intruder deep into North Vietnam, on one last, hell-bent strike for honor--and victory!