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Click to view full description | 1. | Brown, Dale Day of the Cheetah
Berkley Publishing Group December, 1993 Mass Market Pa used: excellent
Brown's third technothriller is based on a premise successfully developed a decade ago in Clive Thomas's Firefox : the theft of an advanced-design fig hter. This time the year is 1996; the fighter is America's X-34 Dreamstar; and its secret is ANTARES: the interfacing of the pilot's nervous system an d the aircraft's computer. The plane's hijack by its pilot, a KGB mole, set s the stage for a fast-moving spectrum of diplomatic and military measures to recover or destroy the prize without starting a world war. Ultimately th e task falls to the Cheetah--an F-15 with its own updated avionics, but an "older, less intelligent cousin" of Dreamstar.
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| 2. | Brown, Dale Dreamland
Berkley Publishing Group June, 2001 Mass Market Pa used: excellent
Few novelists can craft an aerial battle scene more strategically than form er U.S. Air Force Capt. Brown (Warrior Class, etc.), and he and DeFelice (C oyote Bird) are in fine form here. Set deep in the Nevada desert, Dreamland is the place where top minds converge to develop cutting-edge artillery an d aircraft. The discovery of a spy among the ranks of Dreamland's top pilot s unnerves the elite air force personnel assigned to the base and starts a downward spiral in spirits. When Lt. Col. Tecumseh "Dog" Bastian is appoint ed to keep Dreamland off the Pentagon's chopping block, morale is at an all -time low. Bastian's daughter, Capt. Breanna Bastian Stockard, is one of Dr eamland's best pilots, as was her husband, Maj. Jeff "Zen" Stockard, before a training mishap landed him in a wheelchair. Together, father, daughter a nd son-in-law lead a team into battle-torn Somalia using the Megafortress t est bomber, securing Dreamland's funding and restoring its dignity. In such a technically charged story, the sheer number of characters inconsistently referred to by their nicknames and real names parading in and out of the n arrative only creates confusion. Although experienced military-thriller rea ders will marvel at the fast pace of this novel, novices may be left behind .
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| 3. | Brown, Dale Night of the Hawk
Berkley Publishing Group May, 1993 Mass Market Pa used: excellent
Set in the immediate future, this blockbuster demonstrates the exciting pos sibilities open to the techno-thriller in a post-Soviet world. Lithuania, s eeking to remove the last traces of Soviet rule, plans to get rid of a secr et research facility where scientists have developed a Stealth-type bomber- -with the involuntary aid of none other than David Luger, presumed killed i n Flight of the Old Dog . Luger has instead been captured, brainwashed and given a new identity, but somehow he has retained his professional expertis e. Informed of his survival, the U.S. government mounts a rescue. But Gen. Brad Elliott, who led the Old Dog mission, makes plans of his own involving the EB-42 Megafortress, with its bristling array of missiles and electroni cs. Then the two operations become entangled in a Lithuanian uprising and a n invasion from neighboring Belarus. While the rescue subplot is neither cr edible nor necessary, and while the Old Dog's frequently recycled crew is b ecoming somewhat shopworn, the Lithuanian story line sets the stage for dra matic high-tech adventure.
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| 4. | Brown, Dale Sky Masters
Berkley May 1, 1992 Paperback used: excellent
War erupts almost immediately when America pulls out of the Philippines and China slips in to fill the power vacuum. A few of the characters flying Br own's gadget-filled war planes previously appeared in Day of the Cheetah (1 989). Glossary entries (176) and a warm dedication to strategic air power g eneralissimo Curtis LeMay accurately signal the approach of a superacronymi c, high-tech military adventure. The casus belli this time is Chinese enfor cement of that country's ancient claim to the Spratly Islands--a tiny, unin habitable, barely visible, mineral-rich chain halfway between the Asian mai nland and the Philippines. The Philippines, at last free of their long-term American tenants, also claim the Spratlys, and a shootout in the atoll bet ween the two Asian nations' navies escalates much too quickly into full-sca le war as the Chinese, led by a maniacal admiral, pop off a small nuclear d evice and then take the opportunity to invade the Philippine mainland--wher e the leftist first vice-president in the coalition government is only too happy to welcome them. A very unhappy American government has to throw toge ther a battle plan on very short notice, but thanks to the inventive skills of the military-industrial complex's most talented techno-weenie, the Air Force has use of a new generation of spy satellites that, when paired with a souped-up B-2 Stealth bomber turns the air war into an immense video game . Genuinely exciting fight scenes are swamped by oceans of technical detail of interest primarily to the pencil-protector crowd.
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