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Call the Ball: Living in the Middle
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 12 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Major LeBron Bear Cole is an Air Force F-16 pilot on exchange with a Marine Hornet squadron - the Redtails - aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Strait of Hormuz. When the squadron's young Black pilots get handed the hardest deployment in the fleet, Bear has to turn four nuggets into combat pilots before the war turns them into casualties.
From the first cat shot to the last trap, CALL THE BALL is a 27-chapter journey through carrier aviation: the briefs, the tanking, the night traps, the greenie board - and the people who live it. The maintainers who keep aging Hornets flying. The LSOs who grade every pass. The families waiting at home. And one pilot who doesn't come back.
Grounded in real F/A-18C operations and the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen, this is military aviation fiction written from inside the cockpit.
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