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Storming Heaven(1994)

The U.S. is under siege. With chilling ruthlessness terrorist Henri Cazaux has demonstrated the vulnerability of the country’s air defenses by using large commercial aircraft to drop bombs on major airports. When he hits San Francisco Airport the destruction of life and property is enormous, and a national panic ensues.

Only one man can end the chaos: Rear Admiral Ian Hardcastle. Charged by the president with re-establishing security in the skies, Hardcastle must take drastic action to control the emergency — and quickly. But then Cazaux sets his sights on the biggest target of all: the nation’s capital.

“Aviation ace Dale Brown has firmly established his high-tech credentials in seven bestselling aviation thrillers — his new, edge-of-the-cockpit novel should rocket him out to the Van Allen belt.” — NewYork Daily News

“Cazaux is a fascinating monster; Storming Heaven will be an explosive success.” — Booklist

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Chains of Command(1993)

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 airbase, where he meets Rebecca Furness, the first U.S. woman combat pilot. Known as the “Iron Maiden,” Furness is unlike any other aviator Mace has ever known: she’s of course tough and an ace flier— but she’s also beautiful.

When, halfway around the world, a border skirmish involving Russia, Ukraine, and Moldova leads to the deployment of low-yield nuclear devices, the new U.S. president faces his biggest challenge yet. He puts the country 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 couldlead to the horrors of all-out nuclear conflict.

“The action is, as you expect from Brown, great.” — Kirkus Reviews

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Hammerheads(1990)

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For the U.S. government it’s a losing battle. Drug smugglers no longer shy from confrontation— they relish it: blowing Coast Guard jets out of the sky and sinking Coast Guard cutters with powerful bazookas.

While the drug lords have become a coordinated force of devastating ruthlessness, the U.S. anti-drug agents are a squabbling shambles. A radical solution is needed. And Rear Admiral Ian Hardcastle has just that to offer. He will lead an elite and fearless unit (known affectionately in the business as Hammerheads) armed with the latest equipment and deadliest weaponry. Their sole aim is to hit the smugglers. And hit them hard.

“Clancy’s got serious company.” — New York Daily News

“A reader’s delight from first page to last…” — Publishers Weekly

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Silver Tower(1988)

The Silver Tower is America’s first permanent space station. Its primary function is to conduct experiments on space-based lasers for America’s defense against intercontinental ballistic missiles. But on earth, far below the Silver Tower, tensions between the Soviet Union and United States are reaching a breaking point.

From Turkey, the U.S. Rapid Deployment Forces mobilizes to stop a Russian invasion of Iran with bombing raids from F/A 16D fighter-bombers. But the Soviets go on the offensive and launch intermediate-range nuclear missiles. What follows is a dramatic, all-too-plausible chain of events leading towards the first nuclear war in space…

“Brown knows whereof he writes… a superb storyteller.”— The Washington Post

“Intriguing… tense high-tech dogfights.”— Publishers Weekly

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Dale Brown’s Dreamland(2001)

Dale Brown and Jim DeFelice

Hidden in the Nevada desert is America’s most advanced aerospace-weapons testing facility.

Dreamland is the place where the nation’s top minds come to develop artillery and aircraft that push beyond the cutting edge. And where the Air Force’s top guns come to test them — on the front lines of a new era in warfare…

The fiasco of a spy’s infiltration has the Pentagon looking for an excuse to close down Dreamland. To clean up the mess — and save Dreamland from the congressional chopping block — Lt. Colonel Tecumseh “Dog” Bastian is sent in. He’s just the guy to shake things up … and he does so when a Page 257

situation erupts in Somalia.

Into a hotter-than-hot war zone, he sends his own daughter, Captain Brea

“He writes about weapons beyond a mere mortal’s imagination.”— Tulsa World

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Dale Brown’s Dreamland: Nerve Center(2002)

Dale Brown and Jim DeFelice

Dreamland’s latest project is Flighthawk — an unma

Initially all goes well for the first volunteer, Army Captain Kevin Madrone. But the psychological stress proves too much — and suddenly Madrone disappears, armed with and a part of one of the most powerful weapons in the world…

“Nobody … does it better than Brown.”— Kirkus Reviews

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Dale Brown’s Dreamland: Razor’s Edge(2002)

Dale Brown and Jim DeFelice

The weapon is codenamed “Razor” — the brainchild of the brilliant minds at Dreamland. It is a mobile chemical laser system with a range of 600 kilometers. It is capable of downing anything that flies.

The destruction of an American aircraft over northern Iraq suggests the inexplicable and unthinkable: a vengeful foe now possesses this lethal technology. It is fear that draws a retired warrior back to the battlefield, and sends Dreamland’s best pilots to the skies to determine what the enemy has and to help take it away from him.

But politics threatens to crush a covert engagement that must be won in the air and on the ground, unleashing a devastating rain offriendly fire that could ultimately a

“The talk makes Brown’s novels authentic. What makes them riveting is the rapid pace and headline urgency of his plots.”— San Francisco Chronicle

“DEATH OF THE DOGFIGHT”:

AN INTERVIEW WITH DALE BROWN

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Interviewer: You began your first novel, Flight of the Old Dog, while you were still serving in the U.S.

Air Force. What did your colleagues think of this?

Dale Brown: I never really told anybody what I was doing. Most of them thought I was just playing computer games. The others thought I was wasting my time. I enjoyed proving them wrong!

Interviewer: To what degree do you plan your novels before starting to write?

Dale Brown: Probably not as much as I should. When I get an idea, I research it, and if I get some exciting info or background, I’ll write a short outline for my editor, tweak it a little, then get busy.

Interviewer: Is there such a thing as a typical writing day for you? If so, what form does it take?

Dale Brown: Most days start at nine a.m. and go to four p.m., then restart at nine p.m. and go to eleven p.m. I usually rewrite in the morning and write new scenes in the afternoon and evenings. But every day is different. Some days the scenes flow like water —the next day it’s as dry as a desert. But the important thing is tobe in the seat with the computer on, ready to go.