Night Fighter is a series of six novels written by David Sherman and is loosely based on the kind of activities experienced by the US Marines and Vietnamese Popular Forces units of the combat-outpost type of the Combined Action Program of the United States Marine Corps. Sherman admits that the exploits recorded in these novels did not resemble those which he experienced as part of the CAP program. However, his experience in the program gives these stories a verisimilitude that belies their fictional character.
The novels in the Night Fighter Saga are:
- Knives in the Night (1987)
- Main Force Assault; Ivy Books, 1987
- Out of the Fire; Ivy Books, 1987
- A Rock and a Hard Place; Ivy Books, 1988
- A Nghu Night Falls; Ivy Books, 1988
- Charlie Don't Live Here Anymore; Ivy Books, 1989
The Night Fighter books are out of print, but may still be obtained through used book channels.
Famous quotes containing the words night and/or fighter:
“All that I have said and done,
Now that I am old and ill,
Turns into a question till
I lie awake night after night
And never get the answers right.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“A pleasant smell of frying sausages
Attacks the sense, along with an old, mostly invisible
Photograph of what seems to be girls lounging around
An old fighter bomber, circa 1942 vintage.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)