Shadow Flight [Paperback]

Joe Weber (Author)

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From Publishers Weekly

In a techno-thriller set in the near future, Castro declares war on the U.S. after a Stealth bomber hijacked by the KGB is landed in Cuba. Weber "gives readers a firm sense of what it is like to fly against modern air defenses," said PW . "The unsophisticated, two-dimensional characters are less convincing, however."
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Review

Glasnost and perestroika have been unsuccessful and the Soviet economy is reeling under the weight of its failed ideology. The KGB chief,...decides on a daring plan to seize America's most threatening new weapon.

Months later, on a routine training flight, a B-2 Stealth bomber...is hijacked by a civilian weapons technician turned traitor. At gunpoint, the pilots are forced to fly to Cuba -- a flight that, due to the radar-resistant properties of the aircraft, is untraceable.

As the superpowers waltz arm-in-arm in a deadly dance of nuclear brinkmanship, only one man (Steve Wickham) can save the plane and its crew -- and avert a global confrontation. Joe Weber, author of last year's sleeper, "Defcon One, returns with another brisk thriller. A sweeping story old with ringing prose and peppered with nail-biting shoot-outs, escapes, and military maneuvers, this novel is as action-packed as a high-tech aerial dogfight. "Shadow Flight" is techno-thriller action at its very best! -- Rave Reviews, August 1991

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Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Jove (August 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0515106607
• ISBN-13: 978-0515106602
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,458,049 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WHOOOOEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!, March 30, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Shadow Flight (Hardcover)

This is such a marvelous book, even though I read it over three years ago! A B-2 stealth bomber is hijacked and the U.S. strikes back! It has some excellant narrative and some of the most intense dogfight and action scenes I've read

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another winner !!, August 10, 2001

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Thomas Richar "tomrichar" (Long Valley, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shadow Flight (Paperback)

After reading Defcon One (Joe Weber's first book), I was hoping that his excellent keep-the-pages-turning writing style would continue with Shadow Flight. I was not disappointed. This book grabs you from page one and immediately you are thrown into the non-stop action. I took the book with me on vacation and caught a little flak (no pun intended) from the kids who wanted me to put the book down to join them in the pool. The action just keeps coming and the ending is great. Can't wait to read the next one.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Come "spy" with me, October 7, 2004

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Kris (Oxnard, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shadow Flight (Paperback)

For non-military people, or non-machine people in general, this book may be a little confusing. On the other hand, if read with an open mind, there is much to learn.

Did I know what a Stealth bomber was? No, I didn't, but now I do, thanks to this book. I also learned a little, as much as I could digest with my limited experience, about the flight controls in such a plane, altitude differentials, the effect of weather conditions, and such. It was an educational experience, in that respect.

The plot was a little dated, in that the KGB was still trying to pull this thing off, hijacking the bomber and recruiting operatives from disgruntled (or puzzy whupped?) citizens of the U.S.

Cuba going to war with the U.S.? The U.S. bombing Cuba? These were more pieces of the plot that lacked a little in credibility, but then who knows?

Another thing that bothers me about all these military-oriented novels, or most of them anyway, is the jumping around among what seems like too many protagonists. It's really hard to keep track of all the people. Maybe these authors could write in the first person sometimes, so that we slow people without military experience could "get with the program" a little better. Diximus.