Collier's Weekly: Works originally published in Collier's Weekly, A Man Called Horse, The Hunters, Appointment with Death, Five Little Pigs

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Works originally published in Collier's Weekly, A Man Called Horse, The Hunters, Appointment with Death, Five Little Pigs, Evil Under the Sun, Sad Cypress, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, Hercule Poirot's Christmas, The Hollow, Dead Man's Folly, The Moving Finger, The Most Dangerous Game, Pigs Have Wings, The Adventure of Black Peter, Towards Zero, EPICAC, The Body Snatchers, Peter Fenelon Collier, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, A Sound of Thunder, Man Will Conquer Space Soon!, Jill the Reckless, Report on the Barnhouse Effect, Behind the Singer Tower, Deep Waters, Poison, Nunc Dimittis, Hot Water, I'm Crazy, The Adventures of Sally, The Old Reliable, The Mother Hive, The Hang of It, The Stranger, Doctor Sally, Big Money, Personal Notes of an Infantryman. Excerpt: The Hunters is James Salter's debut novel about USAF fighter pilots during the Korean War, first published in 1956. The novel was the basis for a 1958 film by the same name starring Robert Mitchum and Robert Wagner with a very different storyline. Under his birthname James A. Horowitz, Salter himself was a fighter pilot with the rank of Captain who saw combat from February to August 1952. He kept a detailed diary of his tour and the novel closely follows a chronology of events he experienced as an F-86 Sabre pilot with the 4th Fighter-Interceptor Wing, based at Kimpo Air Base, Korea. Salter was 31 when he published the novel and made his protagonist, Captain Cleve Connell, the same age. He describes 31 as being "the end for him" as a fighter pilot: "...not too old, certainly; but it would not be long. His eyes weren't good enough any more. With an athlete, the legs failed first. With a fighter pilot, it was the eyes." Salter himself resigned from the Air Force soon after the publication of The Hunters to pursue an alternate passion, writing. On a frozen Fe...