The Gunner Author:William Stevens The hero is Sgt. Thomas Deacon, a port-waist gunner flying missions over Italy... a man much like other men, except that he has flown thirty-one of the fifty required missions. The only reality he wants to know is the reality of the number of missions left to fly. But you can slice reality only so thin... The novel chronicles his break, his ex... more »ternal mending, and the dark journey of an AWOL soul.« less