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Title: Battle Born by Dale Brown ISBN: 0-553-58003-5 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.24 (34 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Patrick McLanahan returns in "Battle Born"
Comment: Military fiction novelist Dale brown has finally published,after a long wait mind you, his newest novel called "Battle Born". I personnaly received the book on last Thursday from the publisher. I hasten to say that this is the best Dale Brown novel to date. It only took two days to read this 390+ page novel. I just could not put the book down. Patrick McLanahan, Dave Luger and the rest of the Megafortress crew rejoin in this novel performing operations at the relatively new Elliot Air Force Base. And yes the rumors are true, this is new "Megafortress-2". It is a bigger and badder HAWC creation. I wont ruin anything from the book, but war erupts over Korea again and here comes the new EB-1C. As always, Elliot Air Force Base runs the risk of being shut down. Like I said earlier, this is my favorite military fiction novel of all time. I guess I can I am kinda bent toward this novel because I am currently a memeber of the 28th Bomb Wing of Ellsworth A.F.B., South Dakota. Dale came here last spring to get source material for this book. He kindly gives some hearty kudos in the book to the people here at Ellsworth. I will close this review with three words, "BUY THIS BOOK".
Take care all and read books!
Rating: 3
Summary: Another Korean War?
Comment: Dale Brown returns with another aerial techno-thriller, after delving into a James Bondish yarn in Tin Man. This book, Battle Born, was not his best, but it wasn't bad either. 500+ pages and most of it was spent in building up a crew in Nevada to fly modified B-1Bs against ballistic missles.
The main storyline has South Korea coming into possesion of a nuclear weapon. Then after months of infiltrating North Korea with spys and helping to fight their poverty situation, the South Koreans attack, and most N. Koreans revolt against their fellow Communists to overthrow that form of government, effectively uniting Korea.
Meanwhile, in the U.S. a dysfunctional Air National Guard unit is being tested by Gen. Patrick McLanahan over the Nevada deserts in B-1B's. Dreamland is testing plasma-yield weapons as well as antiballilistic missles.
Back overseas, a United Korea has found a stockpile of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), i.e. chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. A leftover crew of loyal North Koreans, still with some WMD's launch an attack on the Southern part of Korea. The defense minister, Kim of United Korea, believes China launched the attack, and wants President Kwon to retaliate against the Chinese with nuclear weapons.
Hence, lies the political and military struggle for the rest of the book. China invades the northern part of Korea, while the
B1-B crews get their act together to keep Northeast Asia from becoming a nuclear wasteland.
Most of the book is dialogue, both normal and technical as only Brown can deliver. Some good aerial sequences, especially near the end.
Rating: 2
Summary: Armegeddon as Soap Opera
Comment: If you prefer your tales of blood and slaughter served up with plenty of jaw-jutting angst, this book is for you. Dale Brown is to be saluted for getting this into print. I wouldn't publish it. The heros are monodimensionally combative with everyone, even each other. There's plenty of bombastic machismo dialogue. Still, the audio version is great for washing dishes. You can miss whole chapters while vacuuming and still follow the plot. And we get to focus on radio-transimitting microchips while thousands fry as the tactical nuclear weapons fly. Doesn't get any better than this for dissassociated mayhem. But hey, I listened to all of it, didn't I?
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Title: Warrior Class by Dale Brown ISBN: 0425184463 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 07 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Fatal Terrain by Dale Brown ISBN: 0425162605 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Tin Man by Dale Brown ISBN: 0553580000 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 06 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Shadows of Steel by Dale Brown ISBN: 0425157164 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Day of the Cheetah by Dale Brown ISBN: 0425120430 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: December, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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