So I Bought an Air Force: The True Story of a Gritty Midwesterner in Somoza's Nicaragua

Nicaraguan strongman General Anastasio Somoza is making room for the modern jets sent down by his Cold War ally, the United States. Will Martin, a 34-year-old Chicagoan, has just been through the humiliating collapse of a family business and is looking to make a fresh start. So I Bought an Air Force is the wild but true tale of how Martin buys the Nicaraguan Air Force's fleet of P-51 Mustangs, F-47 Thunderbolts, and C-45 Expediters and his struggles to get his planes back up to the U.S. With thirty-two pages of stunning photographs from the' author's personal archives, So I Bought an Air Force gives the reader a vivid look at the rough-and-tumble world of 1960s Latin America from the cockpit of some of the hottest. American aircraft ever built.