Sea Skimmer — Larry Jeram-Croft

Patrick O'Brian brought up to date and a British ‘Top Gun'. Royal Navy Lynx helicopter pilot, Lieutenant Jon Hunt, is thrust into the maelstrom of the Falklands War. He is ordered to fly a secret mission into Argentina to contact a French engineer to convince him to sabotage Argentina's deadly Exocet missiles. As the war hots up, Argentina desperately tries to make their missiles more effective and the British try just as desperately to develop countermeasures. Meanwhile, Jon Hunt discovers what it's really like to fly in combat. Eventually, the French engineer and his Argentinian girlfriend find themselves in the Islands just as the British are closing in. In appalling weather, Jon undertakes a rescue attempt which culminates in a desperate encounter in the mountains surrounding Port Stanley just as the final fight for the Islands takes place around them.The book is based on the author's own experience of flying his Lynx from HMS Andromeda in 1982 and many other true stories from the Falklands War that have never been told before.This is the first in the best-selling 'Jon Hunt' series about the modern Royal Navy and the momentous events of the end of the twentieth century. Not just military fiction but thrillers in their own right, they are all based on the author's own military experience.