Pat Conroy's New York Times–bestselling coming-of-age novel about a son's struggle to escape the domineering expectations of his volatile military father.

Marine Col. Bull Meecham commands his home like a soldiers' barracks. Cold and controlling, but also loving, Bull has complicated relationships with each member of his family—in particular, his eldest son, Ben.

A born athlete who desperately seeks...

"Lieutenant Bobby Steele, USN, is a fresh-faced and eager naval aviator: a "Nugget," who needs to learn the ropes and complex procedures of taking off and returning safely to his aircraft carrier. A blurry night of drinking lands him in an unfamiliar bed aboard the USS Oklahoma; later that day, the Japanese destroy Pearl Harbor. After cheating death and losing his friend in this act of war, the formerly naive Steele vows to avenge the attack. Flying...

After his football career crashes and burns, Troy Loensch joins the US Air Force where he, becoming a pilot, agrees to help the CIA investigate a private military contractor called Firehawk.

World War Two. Japanese occupied China. One cousin's courage, another's determination to help a wounded American pilot. In the summer of 1942, Danny Hardy bails out of his fighter plane into a remote region of western China. With multiple injuries, malaria, and Japanese troops searching for him, the American pilot?s odds of survival are slim. Jasmine Bai, an art student who has been saved by Americans during the notorious Nanking Massacre, seems an...

The murder of his best friend and fellow airman by Islamic terrorists thrusts F-14 pilot Tony Vialli into a dangerous game of revenge that will pit a group of Israelis against a group of terrorists ensconced in the Iranian mountains

Sworn brothers -- one American, one Chinese -- captured, imprisoned, tortured. Survival is just the beginning of the battle.... In 1942, Birch Bai, a Chinese pilot, and Danny Hardy, a downed American pilot, become sworn brothers and best friends.In the summer of 1945, both airmen?s planes go down in Yunnan Province of China during one of many daring missions. They are captured, imprisoned, and tortured by the Japanese for information about the atomic...

A new generation of pilots must overcome a spy scandal, a love triagle, fierce domestic and international adversaries, and life-threatening disasters.