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Cuba

Jake Grafton #7 / 10
by Stephen Coonts
Cuba (Jake Grafton #7) by Stephen Coonts
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"Jake Grafton is one of thriller fiction's most compelling heroes—bold, human, and unforgettable." — The New York Times

Bestselling master of the military thriller, Stephen Coonts, takes readers from Guantanamo Bay to the heart of a dying Cuba, where one man holds the trigger of disaster.

Admiral Jake Grafton is overseeing a shipment of nerve gas being transferred for a top-secret U.S. stockpile at Guantanamo Bay. But a power struggle inside Cuba has ignited an explosive plot and turned a horrific new weapon on the U.S. Now, Jake must strap himself into the cockpit of a new generation of American aircraft and fly blind into the heart of an island that is about to blow—and take the whole world with it...

Praise for the Jake Grafton Series

"Coonts sets the bar for military adventure fiction, and the Grafton novels remain the genre's gold standard." — Tom Clancy

"The Jake Grafton books deliver everything readers crave: high drama, moral complexity, and white-knuckle suspense." — The Washington Post

"A landmark military-thriller series: authentic, tightly plotted, and relentlessly exciting." — Publishers Weekly

"Coonts's mastery of aviation action and geopolitical tension finds its fullest expression in the Grafton novels." — Booklist

"Razor-sharp storytelling with the authority of lived experience—Grafton feels real, and so do the stakes." — Library Journal

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Release date: 1999

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Stephen Coonts

Stephen Coonts

Stephen Coonts is the author of innumerable New York Times bestsellers, the first of which was the classic flying tale, Flight of the Intruder.
Born in 1946, Stephen Paul Coonts grew up in Buckhannon, West Virginia, a coal-mining town of 6,000 population on the western slope of the Appalachian mountains. He majored in political science at West Virginia University, graduating in 1968 with an A.B. degree. Upon graduation he was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy and began flight training in Pensacola, Florida.

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He received his Navy wings in August, 1969. After completion of fleet replacement training in the A-6 Intruder aircraft, Mr. Coonts reported to Attack Squadron 196 at NAS Whidbey Island, Washington. He made two combat cruises aboard USS Enterprise during the final years of the Vietnam War as a member of this squadron. After the war he served as a flight instructor on A-6 aircraft for two years, then did a tour as an assistant catapult and arresting gear officer aboard USS Nimitz. He left active duty in 1977 and moved to Colorado. After short stints as a taxi driver and police officer, he entered the University of Colorado School of Law in the fall of 1977.

Mr. Coonts received his law degree in December, 1979, and moved to West Virginia to practice. He returned to Colorado in 1981 as a staff attorney specializing in oil and gas law for a large independent oil company.

His first novel, Flight of the Intruder, published in September 1986 by the Naval Institute Press, spent 28 weeks on the New York Times bestseller lists in hardcover. A motion picture based on this novel, with the same title, was released nationwide in January 1991.

The success of his first novel allowed Mr. Coonts to devote himself full time to writing; he has been at it ever since. He still enjoys flying and tries to do as much of it as possible.

Mr. Coonts’ books have been widely translated and republished in the British Commonwealth, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Turkey, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Russia, China, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Serbia, Latvia, and Israel.

The U.S. Naval Institute honored Mr. Coonts with its Author of the Year Award for the year 1986 for his novel, Flight of the Intruder. He was a trustee of West Virginia Wesleyan College from 1990-1998. He was inducted into the West Virginia University Academy of Distinguished Alumni in 1992. In 2014 West Virginia University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters degree.

Jake Grafton

Jake Grafton consists of ten books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

Flight of the Intruder (Jake Grafton #1)
★ 6.00 / 1
The Intruders (Jake Grafton #2)
Unrated
Final Flight (Jake Grafton #3)
Unrated
The Minotaur (Jake Grafton #4)
Unrated
Under Siege (Jake Grafton #5)
Unrated
The Red Horseman (Jake Grafton #6)
Unrated
Cuba (Jake Grafton #7)
Unrated
Hong Kong (Jake Grafton #8)
Unrated
America (Jake Grafton #9)
Unrated
Liberty (Jake Grafton #10)
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