Chinook

By Bismark Kwesi Ansah

A platoon of thirty U.S. Army Rangers of 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, and the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), famously known as the "Night Stalkers Chinook crew are engaged in different high-risk missions that will define the rest of their lives.
Led by 1LT Alford, disciplined, lethal, and tightly bonded - a platoon forged through repetition, trust, and the unspoken contract that no one is left behind. Above them flies their lifeline: a MH-47G Chinook commanded by CW3 Daniel "Hawk" Hawkins, a pilot whose instincts and calm command have pulled men out of worse.
The missions begins like many others - night insertion, urban objective, layered enemy resistance. The Rangers move with precision: support-by-fire set, breach executed, rooms cleared in disciplined violence. But as the objective collapses into chaos and enemy reinforcements converge, the extraction becomes the true battle.
Under tracer fire and deteriorating conditions, the Chinook flies in hot. Steel screams, hydraulics fail, and alarms fight the noise of gunfire. Still, the Chinook refuses to wave off.
At its core, the novel is not only about the combat missions.
It is about the aircraft that carried them into danger.

The twin rotors that still turn in the night - steady, loyal, unforgotten.
It is about leadership under irreversible decisions.
It is about aviation crews and ground forces bound by trust measured in seconds.
It is about the fragile line between survival and sacrifice.
And it is about how men continue forward when forward is the only direction left.
The Chinooks keep flying.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GQG78XT2
• ISBN13: 9798249506872
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"