Shadow Command Dale Brown by Dale Brown 9780061173721, 006117372X instant download after payment.

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 McLanahan, commander of the High Technology Aerospace Weapons Center, fears the Russians are covertly arming Iran, now known as the Democratic Republic of Persia. An immoral and weak U.S. president, Joseph Gardner, doesn't help the situation. Full of technical prose (Skybolt was powered by a MHDG, or magnetohydrodynamic generator, which used two small nuclear reactors to rapidly shoot a slug of molten metal back and forth through a magnetic field to produce the enormous amount of power required by the laser) and broadly drawn characters, from Gardner, who can't keep his pants on even during a global crisis, to Senate majority leader Stacy Anne Barbeau, who wields her cleavage in the interests of her constituents as well as national security, this novel will appeal to readers who care more about advanced weaponry than a plausible plot. (May)
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The new Patrick McLanahan miltary thriller pits the U.S. Air Force lieutenant-general against his archenemy, Russian air force chief of staff General Andrei Darzov. At stake is military supremacy in earth’s orbit and, by extension, supremacy over earth itself. Brown’s fans have come to expect certain things from his novels, and he delivers them here with gusto: larger-than-life characters; a high-tech story; narrative passages full of (a cynic might say clogged with) military terminology; precise technical descriptions of hardware, such as aircraft and weaponry; and a pace that allows readers very little time to consider just how implausible the story actually is. Readers who are shopping around for elegant prose and graceful plotting might want to keep on looking, but fans