SEARCH, TRACK, LAUNCH: A Vietnam War Novel of the EA-6B Prowler and Radar That Learned Its Enemy

Six weeks into his second combat cruise over the Gulf of Tonkin, Navy pilot Doyle knows the math by heart: fly the EA-6B Prowler straight at the missile ring, jam the enemy's fire-control radar, and buy the strike package behind him the seconds it needs to survive. The math says it works. It doesn't say what it costs. Four hundred kilometers north, at a radio post buried in the Red River Delta, a young operator logs every American jamming signal that crosses his headset - patiently, precisely - until a pattern starts to show itself. In Hanoi, an engineer turns that pattern into geometry precise enough to shoot at. Across the six months of Operation Linebacker, Search, Track, Launch follows the Americans flying toward the radar and the Vietnamese hunting the jammer - two crews learning each other's habits in real time, each innovation on one side answered by an adaptation on the other, until a single afternoon over Kien An forces both of them to learn exactly what their calculations cost. Built from the real tactics of EA-6B electronic warfare and the SA-2 "Fan Song" radar that hunted it, this is a novel about the distance between a correct measurement and a moral decision, and about a war fought as much with information as with bombs.