Dale Brown, Author Putnam $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-14139-3
One of the special pleasures of constructing a techno-thriller seems to be the opportunity to predict one's own version of world affairs. In an unusually thoughtful entry set in early 1997, shortly after the events of his novel Day of the Cheetah (19
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Dale Brown. Morrow, $26.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-199001-4
Following 2011's A Time for Patriots, China is the bad guy in the 18th entry of Brown's long-running Patrick McLanahan series, set in 2014 & 2015. A 21st century Cold War looms after the Chinese test a new ballistic missile, and tensions ratchet up...
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Dale Brown, Author Bantam Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-553-11106-4
The tag line ""This time it's personal"" comes to mind in Brown's 11th techno-thriller (after Fatal Terrain). Instead of foreign countries and the threat of WWIII, international terrorism hits the streets of Sacramento, Calif., in the form of...
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Dale Brown, Author Putnam Publishing Group $22.95 (479p) ISBN 978-0-399-13822-5
In the year 1995, hardliners have taken control of Russia and seek to reabsorb Ukraine, which has applied for NATO membership. When Russia detonates a low-yield atomic device, the U.S. dispatches a wing of F-111 aircraft, some piloted by women....
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Dale Brown, Author Berkley Publishing Group $7.99 (496p) ISBN 978-0-425-13262-3
While Brown's scenario of a 1994 seems farfetched, his ability to depict technological warfare makes this an exciting war story. (May)
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Dale Brown, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (478p) ISBN 978-1-55611-170-9
Brown's fourth and most exciting techno-thriller has a new focus: the drug war, not the Cold War. At some point in the near future, the narcotics cartel has hired the Cuchillos (``Blades''), renegade Cubans flying jet fighters, to protect ever-larger
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Dale Brown, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (349p) ISBN 978-1-55611-060-3
This disappointing second novel by the author of Flight of the Old Dog begins with some intriguing political projections: four years from now, the space-based defense system known as ""Star Wars'' will have become a reality, the shuttle program will
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Dale Brown, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (347p) ISBN 978-1-55611-034-4
It is not the Reagan Administration that has secretly been developing a Strategic Defense Initiative in this first book by retired USAF Captain Brown, but the Soviets, and as soon as the system comes on line, the Russians flagrantly attack American...
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Dale Brown, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (504p) ISBN 978-1-55611-121-1
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 fighter. This time the year is 1996; the fighter is America's X-34 Dreamstar; and its secret is...
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Dale Brown, Author Bantam Books $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-553-11123-1
Last spotted on a singlehanded crusade against international terrorism in The Tin Man, veteran hero Patrick McLanahan, now a one-star general, is back at the head of a U.S. Air Force team in this 12th military techno-thriller from the ever-popular...
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Dale Brown, Author Putnam Adult $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-14241-3
"" `It's nothing you haven't done before, General,' McLanahan said. `I know you've gone over the Mach at one hundred AGL in the B-1B, and you've shook off fighters in a B-52 down low before, too.' "" Readers whose pulse rises at sentences like that...
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Dale Brown, Author Berkley $7.99 (560p) ISBN 978-0-425-12645-5
When the narcotics cartel hires renegade Cubans flying jet fighters to protect large shipments, enter the Hammerheads, a new paramilitary border security force. PW called this techno-thriller a ``smooth blend of plot, action and gadgetry. . . a...
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Dale Brown, Author . Putnam, $25.95 (449p) ISBN 978-0-399-14714-2
Brown's raw enthusiasm for the nuts and bolts of military hardware still courses through his gung-ho renditions of the fictional air adventures of the U.S. armed forces (Battle Born; The Tin Man; etc.). Here, in Brown's 13th thriller, he...
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Dale Brown, Author Putnam $22.95 (399p) ISBN 978-0-399-13931-4
Brown ( Chains of Command ) shamelessly promotes himself and his previous works in his eighth aeronautical techno-thriller. Thus, this unwieldy tale of domestic terrorism includes forces and characters (notably maverick Coast Guard Rear Admiral Ian...
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Dale Brown, Author Fine $22.95 (462p) ISBN 978-0-399-13739-6
Set in the immediate future, this blockbuster demonstrates the exciting possibilities open to the techno-thriller in a post-Soviet world. Lithuania, seeking to remove the last traces of Soviet rule, plans to get rid of a secret research facility...
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Dale Brown, Author Putnam $21.95 (510p) ISBN 978-0-399-13705-1
Brown's expertise in depicting modern sea-air combat makes his latest techno-thriller a heavy contender for a hot summer read. In 1994, confrontation between China and the Philippines over the oil-rich Spratly Islands flares into a shooting war. A...
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Dale Brown, Author . Morrow $25.95 (355p) ISBN 978-0-06-117311-0
The U.S. is still recovering from “the American Holocaust,” a Russian air strike that killed and wounded thousands in 2004, at the start of this clunky techno-thriller from bestseller Brown (Strike Force
). In 2009, Lieutenant General...
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Dale Brown, Author . Eerdmans $18 (318p) ISBN 978-0-8028-6228-0
For more than 20 years, W. Dale Brown has been interviewing authors about “wrestling with the sacred in their writing.” As a former English professor at Calvin College and director of its Festival of Faith and Writing, Brown has been in...
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Dale Brown, Author . Morrow $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-117310-3
Bestseller Brown (Edge of Battle
) takes the subject of his latest from current headlines—the rapprochement between Iran and Russia (the former wants to secure nuclear technology, the latter a new foothold in the Middle East). The emergence of
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Dale Brown, Author . Morrow $25.95 (418p) ISBN 978-0-06-075300-9
Action junkies for whom characterization is not a priority will zip through this near-future techno-thriller from bestseller Brown, a sequel to Act of War
(2005). The elite American unit known as Task Force TALON continues to battle a Russian...
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Dale Brown, Author . Morrow $25.95 (345p) ISBN 978-0-06-009411-9
Longtime series hero Maj. Gen. Patrick McLanahan takes to the air again in this rousing-as-usual techno-military thriller by veteran Brown. Always the loose cannon, the general has been demoted and reassigned after sending his unmanned robo-planes...
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Dale Brown, Author . Morrow $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-009409-6
This absorbing techno-thriller follows the author's established pattern of fast action in the air and on the ground, its hard-driving protagonists equipped with an arsenal of futuristic hardware. Patrick McLanahan is back again, this time as air
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Dale Brown, Author , read by Ron McLarty. Putnam Berkley Audio $25.95 (, abridged, four cassettes, 6 hrs., $25.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-399-14896-5
Here's the perfect solution to a too-tame commute: plug in Brown's 14th airborne saga about former Air Force General Patrick McLanahan and his Night Stalkers. Led by the wise but hot-blooded McLanahan, on the outs with his former government...
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Dale Brown, Author . Putnam $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-399-14860-6
Military-action thriller-master Brown (Warrior Class) ignites a Middle East powder keg and drops an unsanctioned special ops corps of retired U.S. military officers armed with new superweapons into the mix in his best outing yet. Forcibly retired...
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Dale Brown, Author, Don Yaeger, Author Hyperion Books $22.45 (179p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6044-9
This unusual sports book is less about Brown's 22 years as head basketball coach at Louisiana State than about his philosohy of life. Assisted by Yaeger (Under the Tarnished Dome), he expounds that being an undeviatingly straight arrow is the only...
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Dale Brown, Author, James DeFelice, Joint Author . Jove $7.99 (377p) ISBN 978-0-515-13581-7
This brisk, if conventional, entry in Brown and DeFelice's jargon-filled series of military thrillers (Dale Brown's Dreamland: Nerve Center, etc.) takes a team of high-tech pilots from Dreamland, an aerospace weapons-testing facility, to sea.
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Dale Brown, Author, James DeFelice, Joint Author . Berkley $7.99 (375p) ISBN 978-0-425-18120-1
Few novelists can craft an aerial battle scene more strategically than former U.S. Air Force Capt. Brown (Warrior Class, etc.), and he and DeFelice (Coyote Bird) are in fine form here. Set deep in the Nevada desert, Dreamland is the place where top...
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Dale Brown, Author, Michael McShane, Performed by , read by Michael McShane. HarperCollins Audio $44.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-075645-1
Veteran audio, TV and film actor McShane brings Brown's latest thriller to life with understated skill—a much-needed element in this churning engine of hard-to-swallow political and military theorizing. Listening to McShane is like sitting
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Dale Brown, Author . Morrow $26.99 (321p) ISBN 978-0-06-156087-3
This solid techno-thriller from bestseller Brown (Shadow Command
) focuses on Scion Aviation International, a private security contractor providing mission support to the dwindling U.S. military presence in Iraq. Operated by a maverick former air...
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Dale Brown, Author . Morrow $26.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-156085-9
China and Russia pursue newly aggressive policies in hot spots like Somalia and Yemen that threaten the U.S. in this exciting near-future political thriller from bestseller Brown (Rogue Forces
). Kenneth Phoenix, the U.S. vice president, finds...
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Dale Brown. Morrow, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-198999-5
Bestseller Brown's interesting but light on action thriller, part of his loose series featuring a number of characters (Executive Intent, etc.), finds Gen. Patrick McLanahan now retired to Battle Mountain, Nev. There McLanahan continues his lifetime
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Dale Brown, read by William Dufris, Harper Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 12 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-0-06-162962-4
The Chinese and Russian heads of state collaborate, using deception and sabotage to jeopardize the successful U.S. military facilities on the sea and in space. Recurring characters from Brown's previous books play major roles in both thrilling...
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Dale Brown. Morrow, $27.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-226239-4
Bestseller Brown's exciting 19th entry in his loosely connected techno-thriller series (after 2012's Tiger Claw) focuses on Bradley McLanahan. As a precocious and well-connected engineering student at California Polytechnic State University, Bradley
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Dale Brown. Morrow, $28.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-06-244197-3
The masterly 19th entry in bestseller Brown’s McLanahan series (after 2012’s Tiger Claw) combines geopolitical machinations and advanced computer terrorism. In the near future, under the iron rule of President Gennadiy Gryzlov, Russia targets Poland,
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Dale Brown. Morrow, $28.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-244201-7
In bestseller Brown’s rousing sequel to 2017’s Price of Duty, Capt. Brad McLanahan, Col. Wayne “Whack” Macomber, and Maj. Nadia Rozek of the Iron Wolf Squadron, who pilot cybernetic infantry devices, 12-foot-tall combat robots with “more firepower...
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Dale Brown and Jim DeFelice. Harper, $9.99 mass market (528p) ISBN 978-0-06-212282-7
In this 15th Dreamland aviation thriller (after 2012’s Collateral Damage), Brown and DeFelice are at the top of their game. At the Dreamland base, a top-secret development area in the Nevada desert, Capt. Turk Mako, a test pilot in the U.S. Air...
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Dale Brown. Morrow, $28.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-06-284301-2
Outer space becomes the battleground in bestseller Brown’s thrilling follow-up to 2018’s The Moscow Offensive. In the near future, the Russians, led by their unstable president, Gennadiy Gryzlov, have developed advanced aerospace weapons as part of...
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Dale Brown. Morrow, $28.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-284308-1
Set in 2022, this exciting military action thriller from bestseller Brown finds American forces still in control of Mars One, the armed Russian space station that a space-borne commando raid captured in 2019’s The Kremlin Strike. Since the Russians...
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Dale Brown. Morrow, $28.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-301504-3
This strong series launch from bestseller Brown (Eagle Station) introduces Capt. Nick Flynn, a smart-mouthed U.S. Air Force intelligence officer banished to a remote outpost in Alaska, where he heads up a ragtag bunch of similar military outcasts...
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Dale Brown. Morrow, $28.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-301508-1
Bestseller Brown’s worthy sequel to 2021’s Arctic Storm Rising finds former U.S. Air Force intelligence agent Nick Flynn, now with the Quartet Directorate, a private intelligence outfit, in Austria for a clandestine rendezvous on a ski slope with...
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Dale Brown. Blackstone, $28.99 (406p) ISBN 979-8-212-18834-0
Brown unleashes his typical blast of military action in this third Nick Flynn outing (after 2022’s Countdown to Midnight), a scorchingly paced if predictable adventure about foiling a Russian nuclear attack on the United States. Flynn, a former...
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