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The Aviator Omnibus

The Aviator and The Warfighter (The Aviator: Stories of Future Wars Series, Books 1 and 2)

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The Aviator Omnibus

Auteur(s): Craig DiLouie
Narrateur(s): Garrett Michael Brown
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In The Aviator, Navy fighter pilot Jack Knapp reports to the aircraft carrier Independence for his first deployment in the Pacific. As a “nugget”, he must learn the ropes and gain acceptance among the tight-knit tribe of the squadron called the Gargoyles. Soon, war erupts, and everything he learned will be tested in high-speed aerial combat in the Philippine Sea and over Taiwan.

In The Warfighter, Jack returns to Independence, which is now bound for war games in South Korea. Once aboard, he must contend with a tough new commander and a failed romance. When a series of mishaps and miscalculations results in the outbreak of war in the Koreas, he finds himself back in combat with even greater stakes involving nuclear weapons.

The Aviator series is the tale of an ordinary man doing an extraordinary job in sometimes impossible circumstances. It’s about survival, combat, the stories we tell about war, and the debt that people in the military owe each other and those they lose. Gritty and realistic, the Aviator series takes you onto an aircraft carrier and into the cockpit of an F/A-18 Super Hornet in incredible battles with the existence of nations and the global order at stake.

©2021 Craig DiLouie (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing Fiction Fiction de genre Militaires Thrillers et romans à suspense Guerre Japon impérial Force aérienne
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It's a still pretty pretty decent listen if you still crave a NAVY aviation story after Raven 1, the Punk series, and Lions of the Sky.

Not the best in its genre

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Craig DiLouie describes life as a Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot on-board an Aircraft Carrier so well that I'm nearly convinced that the author actually flew + served. The details feel so authentic that readers are directly placed in tense ready/briefing rooms, right there joking with flight crews, and duking it out with bad guys in "furball" dogfights while on missions. The book strives to make what we've seen in Tom Cruise's 'Top Gun' movies realistically accessible.

DiLouie does an "adequate" job doing that.

His day-to-day description is excellent - but he occasionally gets distracted with technical details involved with flying jet aircraft, his pop-culture jokes sentence the book to irrelevance in 10 years (nobody is going to get some of these 90s Sit-com references in 2035) and his plots are disappointingly Hollywood Screenplay quality at best.
• Book One ('The Aviator') introduces Jack Knapp - wannabe "Top Gun" learning the ropes as a combat Navy Pilot on his first deployment in harm's way. He eventually gets thrown into aerial battle against Chinese pilots when an Eastern China Sea conflict erupts over Taiwan. Knapp (call-sign "Beaver") is forced to eject, is captured, and is showcased in a sham trial.. and the book ends there.
• In 'The Warfighter' (Book Two), Jack is thrown into a new conflict - this time fighting North Korea. After his release from Chinese captivity, he becomes a senior pilot aboard the Carrier 'Independence', interacts with fellow pilots among the "Gargoyles" squad, ends up involved in an international incident that starts a war between the US and DPRK forces.. and fights in mission after mission. This book showcases the author's feel for tactical choreography much better than Book one did, but the ending is unsatisfying and DiLouie left me annoyed by the Jack Knapp character's clueless/dumb flippancy.

As to presentation: Reader Garrett Michael Brown grasps the author's intended tone beautifully, but his near-jocular delivery becomes annoying after a couple of hours and his Asian accents are straight-up awful. In toto, I rate the production quality "average". Blackstone Publishing Inc. could have gotten similar results from any professional narrator in their stable.

Altogether 'The Aviator Omnibus' is a great value offering (2 for 1 is always a good deal).. but belongs in the 'Plus' catalog. The 7/10-star offering was a reasonable distraction for free but not worth a Credit should they ask for one.

[Note: the repeated references to Pilots + Wizzos smelling each other's farts in plane cockpits after Taco Tuesday are meant as comic relief but are kinda weird]

Immersive

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Starting with the narrator who isn’t very good the story was a disappointment. Pretty simple characters to the point of cliche and the story was just as simple. Glad it was a free read.

Disappointed with the book

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