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Piranha (Dale Brown's Dreamland)

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India and China are getting ready to rumble. They have two fleets heading for each other. The Indian navy has a new weapon called Kali--a cruise missile that can be fired like a torpedoe thus hiding the attacking submarine.

However, a joint air force / navy group is testing an advanced underwater imaging system called Piranha. Naturally Dreamland and 3 Megafortresses are tagged to run the initial tests. WHen things heat up in the Pacific, they deploy Piranha to keep track of the opposing fleets and prevent the conflagration.

The story is set in 1997, and some of the technology described here might have already made its way from the drawing board to implementation. Clearly, recent events in Afghanistan and Iraq demostrate US technically superiority over everyone else.

This book is tightly written and real joy to read. There is absolutely nothing described here that isn't possible and that's what makes it so great.

I tried three times to get back into this novel. The early pages didn't really have much punch and consisted of too many characters, jargon and acronyms. Near the middle my persistence paid off and I couldn't put the book down. The flights were exciting and the combats (too few) were realistic.

The technology was quite believable and and always seen to work better than expected. You got the feeling that Dreamland really does exist!

It was a very exciting book. I'm very partial to Dale Brown's writing. I think I have every one of his books.

instigated by Tawian. Now there is foundation for a good story. Like all of his stories it is way too technical. In fact the first part was hard to read because of this. But once the action started I enjoyed reading it. The action took place in the South China Sea. Dreamland had to come to the rescue before a world war would break out. They did their heroic deeds such as blowing up topedoes that were aimed at the Chinese.

I enjoyed how the Navy tried to interfer with the operation. Your standard military hogwash. But in the end the good guys prevailed.

I would have rated it higher but the last section with Zen thinking his wife cheated on him really disapointed me. In the future I wish Zen would clean up his act.

If you're used to Dale Brown writing fast paced exciting books, you won't be disappointed.
The only problem with Dale Brown is he doesn't write a new book every week!

A typical novel of Dale Brown, consisting of the usual high tech weaponry and battle scenes. Set in the United States, the corporation of Dreamland is back with a new probe, Piranha for testing. However they must deloy this drawing board product before a nuclear war can be waged between China and India. The intensive briefing and exciting battle sections is what captivates an audience to continue reading throughout the series. Dale Brown ties in the use of high tech weaponary, yet in the same time allowing us to visualize the realism of these high tech gadgets. As the climax of the story builds up from all the different components from previous books, the uprising feel of anxiety rushes to all readers as the novel reveals the truth. The only downfall of this book lies upon it's the consistent and repeatative in context of the foreshadowing. Reader's can simply understand the foreshdadow, causing the ending to be less surprising than expected.