About the Author

Former U.S. Air Force captain Dale Brown was born in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Penn State University with a degree in Western European History and received an Air Force commission in 1978. He was a navigator-bombardier in the B-52G Stratofortress heavy bomber and the FB-111A supersonic medium bomber, and is the recipient of several military decorations and awards. His most recent novel is The Tin Man.

Reviews

'Clancy's got serious company.' New York Daily News 'The best military adventure writer in the country.' Clive Cussler 'When a former pilot with years of experience turns his hand to writing thrillers you can take their authenticity for granted. His writing is exceptional and the dialogue, plots and characters are first-class... far too good to be missed.' Sunday Mirror 'Brown has the technothriller down cold.' USA Today

'Clancy's got serious company.' New York Daily News 'The best military adventure writer in the country.' Clive Cussler 'When a former pilot with years of experience turns his hand to writing thrillers you can take their authenticity for granted. His writing is exceptional and the dialogue, plots and characters are first-class... far too good to be missed.' Sunday Mirror 'Brown has the technothriller down cold.' USA Today

Aerial warfare expert Patrick MacLanahan is back and, as in Fatal Terrain, he's battling his cowardly military superiors, egotistical politicians in Washington, and just about everyone else on the globe. He must risk his career and his life to deploy newly developed Air Force technology and nullify the threat of global thermonuclear war (posed by a conflict between China and Korea). Longtime action-fiction writer Brown has created a world dominated by paranoia, military concerns, and the hardware of modern war. His characters have the annoying habit of repeating and contradicting themselves. They also speak at great length about their fondness for weaponryÄpages of description and detail about aircraft and ordinance slow down an otherwise fast-moving if predictable story. Public libraries with Brown fans will want to purchase this title, but there is little reason for anyone else to do so. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 8/99.]ÄPatrick J. Wall, University City P.L., MO Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.