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Nov. 2003. 368p. Simon & Schuster, $25 (0-7432-5050-8).
Jerry Stein is under a lot of pressure. The wealthy owner of an aging fleet of military planes retooled to fight forest fires, he feels his fortune slipping from his grasp as the government lobbies to move "fire bombing" duties from the forest department to the military. The political heat only worsens when in-air accidents start to occur with some frequency. In the meantime, fires rage throughout the West, destroying hundreds of acres of national parks and endangering bordering towns. That's why Stein is relieved when recently retired star pilot Clark Maxwell agrees to unretire temporarily in ...