Eastern Europe erupts in war as the Russians rush to the aid of
their compatriots in Moldova, happily trampling Ukraine in the
process. As usual, Air Force veteran Brown (Night of the Hawk,
1992, etc.) gives all the good parts to the pilots. They never get
mentioned by name, but America's fast-food swilling, loose-talking,
draft-dodging President and his control-freak,
borderline-dominatrix, unelected-tsarina, anti-military, knee-jerk
liberal wife are the real villains in this near-future military
technothriller. Their rush to de-fund the troops - plus their
reliance on bull sessions to solve the world's arguments - nearly
undoes the nice new world order left by George Bush. They're just
not prepared for the brutality of a retro-rigid Russia where
old-line Stalinist Vitaly Velichko has usurped Boris Yeltsin's seat
and loosed the dogs of war on the former Soviet republics of
Moldova and Ukraine. The guy simply does not play fair - he uses
nukes without having a meeting to get in touch with the world's
feelings. It's up to America's new downsized Air Force to come to
the aid of Ukraine, where the planes are all Soviet antiques but
the pilots are all heart. American heroes include Robert Redford
look-alike Darren Mace, who was supposed to but didn't drop a nuke
on Saddam Hussein, and superpilotess-businesswoman Rebecca Furness,
a victim of the First Lady's ruthless reductions in force. The
Ukrainian hero is Pavlo Tychina, a first-rate flyer out for some
serious revenge after his fiancee falls victim to the Russian
neutron bomb. The action is, as you expect from Brown, great. But
the surprisingly violent Clinton-hashing - while amusing - will
probably not make a lot of new friends for the genre. (Kirkus
Reviews)
Radar navigator Daren Mace has been to the gates of hell and back. In Operation Desert Storm he rightfully aborted a secret mission, only to be ostracized by the flying community as a result. Now Mace has a new role – in the Air Force Reserves at a New York air base, where he meets Rebecca Furness, the USA's first woman combat pilot. Known as the 'Iron Maiden', Furness is unlike any other aviator Mace has ever known – beautiful, tough and an ace flier.
When, halfway around the world, a border skirmish involving Russia, Ukraine and Moldova leads to low-yield nuclear devices being used, the new US president faces his toughest challenge yet. He puts the USA on full wartime-readiness footing for the first time since 1991 and sends an air combat force to Ukraine, just as the Russian president is making his own power plays. Suddenly Mace, Furness and the rest of their unit are hurtled into a dispute that goes beyond Ukrainian borders – a crisis that could lead to the horrors of all-out nuclear conflict.
“Dale Brown is the best military adventure writer in the country today – a master at creating a sweeping epic and making it seem real”
CLIVE CUSSLER, author of 'Sahara'
“The action is, as you expect from Brown, great”
KIRKUS REVIEWS
“Dale Brown is a superb storyteller”
WASHINGTON POST
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