The Eagle's Last Flight

Skip O'Neill lies dying of leukemia in a New York hospital determined to live until the new millennium. His wasted body shows scant evidence of the man he once was-an Air Force fighter pilot and decorated combat veteran.</p><p>O'Neill's first assignment as a young lieutenant places him among hard drinking World War II-and Korean War-era fighter pilots who quickly teach him their ways. He almost washes out of pilot training but is persistent and manages to graduate. In Vietnam he proves to be a skillful and courageous pilot who faces dangers of all kinds with equanimity. But the greatest-and most deadly danger-materializes years after O'Neill volunteers to be an observer at an atomic test site.</p><p>In the end O'Neill decides that when his time comes he will dash at it fearlessly. He anticipates being greeted by departed friends-but what awaits him is something totally unexpected.</p>