Ken Babbs was the last member of the legendary Stanford writing class led by Wallace Stegner to publish a novel, and the wait was worth it.
Lieutenants Tom Huckelbee ( leathery as any Texican come crawling out of the sage ) and Mike Cochran ( loquacious son of an Ohio gangster ) make an unlikely pair of of?cers training to be helicopter pilots in Vietnam. Their only aim is to get through this disorienting war without losing their minds. This is a bullet-straight story, a hallucinatory journey with a fearlessly unconventional voice. Babbs brilliantly portrays the world through the eyes of a young man discovering what it means to be beholden to another.This novel, acclaimed as a cross between Joseph Heller and Hunter S. Thompson (Booklist), is a riveting and very funny exploration of war and friendship, and a book not to be missed.
