If a defense contractor faces a crisis, to whom should his loyalties lie: to his client, his country, or his company?Patrick McLanahan is again retired from the U.S. Air Force and has joined former president Kevin Martindale in a new venture: providing high-tech aerial surveillance and other supp...
A volatile U.S. ally has fallen prey to the terrorist beast. India is the target of radical Islamic jihadists, and the world watches breathlessly as tensions escalate between the uneasy giant and its longtime nemesis Pakistan--with China waiting in the wings, eager to flex its military might. A n...
One of the Air Force's top guns, Captain Breanna Stockard is training Brunei pilots to fly the EB-52 Megafortress. But when a violent attempted kidnapping threatens a major arms deal about to take place, Breanna and her husband Major Jeff "Zen" Stockard must uncover a plot that—in this volatile r...
Pirates attach shipping in Gulf of Eden. Experimental warships lead by Captain Harold 'Storm' Gale - Satan's tail trying to catch pirates. Dreamland help destroy pirates. Whiplash and marines attack pirate's land base. Osprey shot down and Boston dies.New technologyWerewolves - Remote controlled ...
I'm struggling with giving this book 2 stars... but I just can't go any higher. Patrick McLanahan is back... eventually! Following Day of the Cheetah, he's retired from the Air Force and running a bar in Sacramento. But old pal Phillip Freeman convinces him to come back and join a new organizatio...
This was written in 1994 and deals with a drug running terrorist who uses a transport plane to drop explosives on major airports. I had to keep pinching myself that this was before 9/11 and how unprepared we were to deal with this type of situation. The military in the novel has few planes deploy...
The bestselling author of Wings of Fire "takes fans right into the cockpits" [UPI] in a brand-new cutting-edge thriller that goes beneath the surface of war.
Overall this storyline of Patrick McClanahan is just silly. I just don't understand creating an alternative universe and timeline (see Back to the Future 2 for clarification), but referencing things from one universe in the other. For example, this book references all the world events that happen...
The Edge of Battle focus on the border war along the Mexican border. Commander Veracruz, a drug dealer and smuggler, is calling upon Mexican nationalism to take back the southeastern part of the United States back to Mexico. As part of this, Veracruz's forces slaughter a group of US border guards...
In the Nevada desert, the high-tech future of warfare is being conceived and constructed at a top-secret military facility called Dreamland Strike Zone. An Asian war that would have escalated into a nuclear nightmare has been halted, thanks to the raw courage, unparalleled skill, and total commi...
Direct connection of flight controls to brain. As politicians push for more budget cuts, Colonel "Dog" Bastian must do what he can to salvage a key experimental program known as ANTARES -- a method of merging electronic data with a pilot's natural senses
I've never read Dale Brown before, but I picked this one up because it looked less imbued with military jargon than the other stuff he's written. Props to him for attempting to expand his story-telling capabilities into something more dramatic, but after reading Tin Man I'm convinced that Brown ...
Finished reading the debut novel of Dale Brown early in the morning. Very exciting action scenes, and because it is set in the cold war era, you can't help but do a little stroll down memory lane with the Americans taking on the evil Ruskies!!!I know for a fact that I would have enjoyed reading t...
In one of his boldest bestsellers, Dale Brown creates a shattering scenario of the ultimate race for technology...America's most advanced fighter plane, "DreamStar, " has been hijacked. To retrieve it, Lt. Col. Patrick McLanahan takes on his most daring assignment since "The Flight of the Old Dog...
This book was published in 1989, so imagine a crisis in the Middle East, a Soviet invasion of Iran, and a clash of US and Soviet naval forces. The US has the Nimitz battle group stationed in the Arabian Sea, the Soviets have the Bresnev battle group in the adjacent Persian Gulf, separated by the ...
It is the immediate future and the drug cartels are winning. Enter the Hammerheads, an elite armed force built on a merged customs and coastguard service. Stationed on offshore platforms, their mission is to halt the flow of drugs before they cross international borders.
The master of the aerial technothriller tackles a story as cutting-edge as tomorrow's headlines. The world is falling apart, and there are plenty of people willing to take advantage. One of them is Pavel Kazakov, a Russian oilman with close ties to organized crime, and an audacious idea: build a ...
When Lieutenant Colonel Patrick McLanahan is offered the chance to test-fly a new B-2 bomber in strategic warfare training sorties, he jumps at the chance. This is McLanahan's chance to reconfirm his flying skills. By the author of Flight of the Old Dog and Hammerheads.
—John Dryden Elko, Nevada Summer 2013 “Severe thunderstorm activity along your route of flight,” the Federal Aviation Administration Flight Service Station weather briefer began. “Convective SIGMET Seven Charlie for Nevada, Idaho, California, and Utah, heavy-to-severe thunderstorms in a one-hundr...
The high desert and rich hills had seen more than their share of conflict, while the people who lived there had fought countless times to rewin their independence. The land’s austere beauty was part of the problem. The mountains that marked three of Azerbaijan’s borders seemed to beckon adventure...
said Jennifer. “We should have it.” Zen stared at the screen. “Nothing. Didn’t work, Jen.” “All right, hold on.” Zen pushed back in the seat. The sim program included a short-handoff module, but it wasn’t much of a workout—on the program, the screen appeared an...
President Zhou shouted, throwing the receiver back on its cradle and jumping to his feet. “I will not stand being spoken to by a miserable sniveling white round-eyed dog like Phoenix!” He patted his jacket and pants pockets for cigarettes and found none. “Bring cigarettes in here!” he shouted to ...
Practice resurrection. —WENDELL BERRY SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA “Finally you did something right,” the first man said in Russian. “Now watch the back door.” The second man put the bludgeon back inside his pants, pulled out a silenced pistol, and took a position where he could watch the backyard...
The only consequence is what we do. —JOHN RUSKIN, BRITISH ART CRITIC, WRITER, AND PHILANTHROPIST DRAWSKO POMORSKIE MILITARY TRAINING AREA, NORTHWEST POLAND SEVERAL DAYS LATER Set in western Pomerania’s patchwork of woods, rolling hills, swamps, broad clearings, and villages, the military training...
the platoon lieutenant reported. “The trucks and armored vehicles are all abandoned. We saw some stragglers camped out a few kilometers away, carrying wounded, but they ran off as we approached. They did not appear to be carrying weapons, so we let them go.” The commander of Kerki Army Air Base g...
He continues to be this nation’s strongest and most authoritative advocate for the heavy bomber, strategic airpower, and a strong national defense. Thanks also to Colonel (BG selectee) Wil Fraser, former commander of the Twenty-eighth Bomb Wing, Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota, for his encouragement ...
—BRENDAN FRANCIS BEHAN IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA, SOUTH OF HAINAN ISLAND, PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA THE NEXT DAY The U.S. Navy had only one vessel within twenty miles of the hastily announced launch point, the USS Milius, an Arleigh Burke–class destroyer—and it had to run at flank speed to get as c...
MARY CARSON, Secretary of State KEN T. PHOENIX, Attorney General CARL MINDEN, Chief of Staff U.S. MARINE CORPS MAJOR-GENERAL ANTHONY LEWARS, White House Press Secretary GERALD VISTA, Director of Central Intelligence LT. GENERAL PATRICK MCLANAHAN, special adviser to the President BRIGADIER GENERAL...
HE WAS perhaps five minutes from his reserves, though he had more leeway now that he could use the Pasdaran base. It looked like he would need it: the ground commander had put the attack on hold, deciding at the last moment that he needed clearance not just from Colonel Khorasani but his own comm...
As fractured and contradictory as they were, he felt the radio transmissions gave him a better sense of what was going on. They were more visceral, and he could judge from the excitement in the voices what the men on the ground were feeling about the battle. They were done; it was over, it had be...
Based on the McDonnell-Douglas Globemaster III C-17, Quickmover had been specially upgraded by the Dreamland design team to act as a front-line, combat cargo ship. Equipped with state of the art avionics and locating gear that would allow the aircraft to drop supplies and paratroopers deep inside...
It was one of the personal “tricks” the speech therapist had given him: Reassure yourself before a meeting that you look fantastic, hon, then you can proceed with confidence. Her precise, motherly voice rang in his ears as he took a slow, deep breath. The nearby Secret Service agent was probably ...
Kharon thumped his fist against the dashboard. He was tempted to yell at Fezzan, who’d taken so long getting them here, but he held his anger in check, not least of all because the two men in the back of the SUV were the driver’s friends. He barely trusted them with weapons under the best of circ...