With candid writing and plenty of intense action, Sucker Punch is sure to please.
Flight school for aspiring airline pilots can be expensive, so for 18 year old Johnny Mack, joining the Army in 1971 seems like a reasonable concession. Unfortunately, Johnny gets much more than flying experience when he is shipped off to Vietnam. And it isn’t the ongoing war that threatens Johnny the most. He is strong-armed into the dangerous mission of spying on his own crew. Assigned to an unarmed Medevac helicopter crew with a shady group of misfits is not how Johnny thought military service would play out. Will Johnny Mack survive the bullets just to be brought down by his own team?
Sucker Punch feels like a realistic and intimate glimpse into the inner workings of a Medevac team dropped into the gory bowels of the Vietnam War. Jim Carroll does not sugar coat the atrocities perpetrated by those on all sides of the conflict. The language is harsh, adding to the weight and authenticity of the story. The book is filled with technical jargon and military speak, no doubt appealing to those who spent their youth in this type of bleak setting.
With candid writing and plenty of intense action, Sucker Punch is sure to please those with an affinity for all things military.
