NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE - From
America's "forgotten war" in Korea comes an unforgettable tale of
courage by the author of A Higher Call.
"In the spirit of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat comes
Devotion."--Associated Press - "Aerial drama at its best--fast,
powerful, and moving."--Erik Larson
Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy's most famous
aviation duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the
Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the
country-club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his
country. An African American sharecropper's son from Mississippi, Jesse
became the navy's first Black carrier pilot, defending a nation that
wouldn't even serve him in a bar.
While much of America remained divided by segregation, Jesse and Tom
joined forces as wingmen in Fighter Squadron 32. Adam Makos takes us
into the cockpit as these bold young aviators cut their teeth at the
world's most dangerous job--landing on the deck of an aircraft
carrier--a line of work that Jesse's young wife, Daisy, struggles to
accept.
Deployed to the Mediterranean, Tom and Jesse meet the Fleet Marines,
boys like PFC "Red" Parkinson, a farm kid from the Catskills. In between
war games in the sun, the young men revel on the Riviera, partying with
millionaires and even befriending the Hollywood starlet Elizabeth
Taylor. Then comes the conflict that no one expected: the Korean War.
Devotion takes us soaring overhead with Tom and Jesse, and into the
foxholes with Red and the Marines as they battle a North Korean
invasion. As the fury of the fighting escalates and the Marines are
cornered at the Chosin Reservoir, Tom and Jesse fly, guns blazing, to
try and save them. When one of the duo is shot down behind enemy lines
and pinned in his burning plane, the other faces an unthinkable choice:
watch his friend die or attempt history's most audacious one-man rescue
mission.
A tug-at-the-heartstrings tale of bravery and selflessness, Devotion
asks: How far would you go to save a friend?
