Taxi Dancer [Paperback]

I felt I was there, in the cockpit with the hero. Well done.Now Back in Print!Upon the 50th anniversary of the air war in Vietnam, Taxi Dancer is beloved author and decorated Vietnam air war veteran Joseph Heywood's lost classic that was introduced decades ago succinctly and powerfully: Nam. The Air War. The First Novel to Tell the Story.As 50th anniversaries of the events of the Vietnam War happen for the next 10 years, this Lyons Press reissue of Taxi Dancer gives Joseph Heywood fans and others the opportunity to read his fictional account of that conflicts air war through the eyes of Captain Barney South. In this novel, the first of Heywood's career, we meet the first Flying Ace of the Vietnam War, Captain Barney South, who has flown ninety hazardous missions. He has already used up more than his fair share of luck. With ten more missions to go, he doesn't need the brand of flak he's been getting from the brass, who have more use for dead heroes than live troublemakers. And now, they're offering him a long shotthe most important mission of the war, they sayalthough Barney is convinced he's being set up.Taxi Dancer is a novel based on an elite corps of jet pilots who flew controversial and highly dangerous bombing raids over North Vietnam. When it was first published, it's front cover carried the following line: Nam. The Air War. The First Novel to Tell the Story. Author Joseph Heywood himself is a veteran of the Vietnam air war1965-1970, USAF Instructor Navigator, KC-135 tanker, honorably discharged as captain. Vietnam veteran. Air Medal with 6 Oak Leaf Clusters.Joseph Heywood is the author of The Snowfly, Covered Waters, The Berkut, Taxi Dancer, The Domino Conspiracy, the nine Grady Service Mysteries, Hard Ground: Woods Cop Stories, and the Lute Bapcat Mysteries Red Jacket and Mountains of the Misbegotten. Featuring Grady Service, a contemporary detective in the Upper Peninsula for Michigans Department of Natural Resources, and?Lute Bapcat, a Rough Ridelƒ˝