Perhaps the most thrilling book I have read in years is "My Secret War" by Richard S. Drury and is a rivetting story of his flying Skyraiders on clandestine missions in Laos during the Vietnam war.
Ernest Gann, author of Fate is the Hunter (which is one of the great classics) comments on Drury's book thus: "An Airman's Great and True Flying Adventure".
Richard Drury is a wonderfully evocative writer who still has a column in the US magazine "Airways". His description of returning from a night mission with his instrument panel shot away then going slap bang into a thunderstorm on limited panel gave a new meaning to the simulator sequence of unusual attitude recoveries.
You can buy the book (which has 287 pages) for the remarkably cheap price of $5.00US (confirming that is five dollars US!) from:
Drury Lane Books,
PO Box 445, Friday Harbor, WA 98250, USA