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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780425157169
ISBN number: 0425157164
Label: Berkley
Manufacturer: Berkley
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: May 01, 1997
Publishing house: Berkley
Sale Popularity Level: 39975
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In an electrifying novel ripped from today's headlines, Dale Brown takes to the skies to deliver a covert battle in the Middle East-a battle that America can't afford to lose.
'A superb storyteller.' (W.E.B. Griffin)
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If you want to read a something that has controversy and action wrapped up into an exciting, fast pace moving plot, then you should read Shadows of Steel by Dale Brown.
This realistic fiction book starts you off in the Persian Gulf aboard a U.S. secret carrier that is attacked and sunk by the Iranian Khomeini carrier group. Some survivors were taken hostage from the ship. The President of the United States, in response, turned to former Air Force Captain Patrick McLanahan. McLanahan - if you've ever read some other Brown books - has saved the day more than once before. An aggressive offensive plan is devised to attack Iran and to prevent another Gulf war from erupting. Targets in the plan are strictly military and industrial only and McLanahan wants to do most of this with non-lethal force. Their weapon is the new B-2 Spirit Stealth bomber that is state of the art. Can McLanahan pull off another successful mission? Check out this book for guaranteed action and suspense.
I would recommend this book to those who are interested in the middle-east and problems over there. Also to those who enjoy suspenseful thrillers with smart action. An example of some of the action from this book that was actually kind of funny was when McLanahan was confronted by the Secret Service and was going to be asked whether he wanted to do the mission or not and McLanahan, not knowing who it was, knocked the guy out with his computer and put him in a tight lock. If you want a read that won't let you down if you're somewhat interested in this stuff, possible even if you're not, then pick this book up now.
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In "Shadows of Steel", It's the "United States Air Force of Patrick McLanahan" v. Iran. Having previously duked it out with Soviets, Red China and a KGB mole, maverick flier McLanahan is tagged to fly stealth missions into Iran. The covert war is spurred by Iran's defacto nationalization of large pieces of the Persian Gulf and their acquisition of an ex-Russian aircraft carrier (betcha can't guess the name). Obviously the Iranians will have none of McLanahan's airborne warfare, but they get help from some allies in America - liberals, bureaucrats and a pissed-off Navy Admiral who's around to remind us that inter-service rivalry is alive and well in the future of Brown's books.
This was a middling novel. Like most of Brown's books, its hampered by its need to get the look, sound and feel of air combat. Unfortunately, we get so much data, there's no room for the story, or even the idea that the book has a plot. "Steel" never feels like it's working towards something - instead it's basically a sting of scenes with flight jargon, political back-talk and scheming villains. Even the feeling of being in the pilot's seat is spoiled - our characters engage in the same easygoing dialog that you expect to hear from people schmoozing on the ground but never from people strapped into a high-performance fighter jet flying over enemy territory. The realism is debatable, but its drag on the plot is painfully obvious. Some howlers however aren't so much technical but fall into that realm of he human conscious for which there is no on-line directory. For all pretensions of being a maverick, McLanahan is a textbook hero, while a thinly veiled versions of real-life liberals make this less a technothriller than a high-tech Alan Drury novel. I should have realized something was wrong when Brown created as a love interest, a beautiful Saudi female soldier - this from a country where women aren't aloowed to drive or show their faces.
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Shadows of Steel was my fourth book from Brown's Aeoro techno thriller. This time, the story took me to the mid east...after the B2 had its experiences in South East Asia (Sky Masters). The story is very good and I really enjoyed reading it. But damn! I felt myself sitting as a CO Pilot with Patrick in B-2 again..! Although it's not that heavy thriller written in previous 'Sky Masters', But Brown is still genious with story writting! He is still the best Pilot! So everyone who is in flight enthusiast, don't miss it!
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Alright,
this was the very very first book of Dale Browns' I have read. Now, I have 5, with another 5 on order.
This book is excellent. This one talks about the B-2 Bomber, and modifying it. Although I recomend you read Sky Masters first, you can read this before Sky Masters, like I did. This one has Patrick suiting up on a B-2 and going to fight the Iranians.
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This is a Very good Book, this is my Third Dale Brown book and i love this one .. the plot is very good, the Flying action is out of this world, I think this B-2 bomber is a favorite from the autor, this book is a must read if you like Dale Brown.
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