James Salter's most recent novel is a rewrite of his 1961 novel The Arm of Flesh. Though that work was acclaimed, it was, according to Salter, a poor seller. Salter, a West Point graduate and fighter pilot who served in Korea, knows his subject and is one of today's most universally admired literary fiction writers. In a brief foreword to Cassada, he asserts that Arm "had serious faults and needed to be rewritten completely," unlike his first Korean air war novel, The Hunters, which was republished in 1997 with only minor revisions.
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