When he could no longer see straight, he stumbled to the 2001st officers’ barracks, selected the first bunk he came to, and fell asleep. Thankfully, he did not dream… He woke up the next day cold and sore. His stomach felt like it was turned inside out. He looked around the barracks—it was a long...
Relatively small, it was thin and crooked and surrounded by many other smaller islands. At the moment, its center seemed to be wrapped in a thick fog. Hunter had been circling at 70,000 feet twenty miles north of the island for the last two hours. The high orbit not only kept him off any radar sc...
There had never been a need before. He was not a soldier. Not Here. Not There. But he had a helmet on now and his wife did too. And their front lawn, where they had so laboriously tried to grow green grass for the past twenty years, was now all mud, churned up from tank treads. Indeed, an enormou...
In that time the recon plane and its five-aircraft escort had covered only about fifteen hundred miles total. Not that the aircraft was going so slow—it was cruising at nearly three hundred knots. The flight computer, obeying the commands inputted by persons unknown, was making the airplane take ...
Built years before by a contracting firm from Xmas Island, the large building resembled an aircraft hangar, except that it was located at the end of a long pier. Like many of the buildings in the port city of Son Tay, the Scream Hall was painted in garish hot orange. The dozen flags ringing its c...
The “X” was an unusual aircraft. Formerly a fighter-bomber/ground attack plane, it had been converted into an armed reconnaissance platform about a year before. Its already-ugly nose had been extended by fifteen feet, providing room for a twelve-lens detachable SLAR/TEREC camera pod. Beneath its ...
In less than two hours, Hunter had traversed some twelve hundred miles straight through the heart of Russian airspace without being detected. The feat, though on the face of it fairly incredible, was actually the result of the close video teamwork between himself and the three officers back in th...
The initial indication was that 16 of the small two-engine jet bombers were circling out about 42 miles off the coast of Cape Canaveral. Their speed was pegged by KSC radar at about 110 knots, dangerously slow for the usually speedy airplane, and a clue that the potential attackers might actually...