Strike Zone (Dale Browns Dreamland 5) [Paperback]

Dale Brown (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 2, 2004 | Series: Dale Browns Dreamland 5

The Dreamland special ops team uncover a plan to stir up unrest between Taiwan and mainland China -- in the latest high-octane adventure from the acclaimed author of Flight of the Old Dog and Air Battle Force. Dreamland is a cutting-edge weapons research facility in the Nevada desert -- home to some of the world's finest pilots and an elite combat unit that operates directly at the command of the US President. Dreamland is rocked by the news that someone in the South China Sea has developed an unmanned spy plane as advanced -- and dangerous -- as their own top-secret Flighthawk. Has there been a breach of security? With a high-level summit between Taiwan and mainland China looming and such a potentially devastating weapon on the loose, the threat to the region's fragile stability is immense. While the hunt for a mole threatens all their achievements, the Dreamland team must embark on the race of their lives: to seek out their mysterious rival -- and destroy it.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'Clancy's got serious company.' New York Daily News 'When a former pilot turns his hand to writing thrillers you can take their authenticity for granted. His writing is exceptional and the dialogue, plots and characters are first-class ! far too good to be missed.' Sunday Mirror 'Brown puts us into the cockpits of wonderful machines and gives us quite a ride. His flying sequences are terrific ! authentic and gripping.' New York Times

About the Author

Former US Air Force captain Dale Brown was born in Buffalo, New York. He was still serving in the US Air Force, where he was a navigator-bombardier, when he wrote The Flight of the Old Dog, the first of a string of New York Times-bestselling thrillers. With Jim DeFelice, he has also written five novels in the highly popular series of paperback original novels based in Dreamland, a cutting-edge weapons research facility in the Nevada desert.

Product Details

• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: Harpercollins Pb (August 2, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0007182562
• ISBN-13: 978-0007182565
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,387,125 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another great reader, March 18, 2004

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"miken96" (Holloman AFB, NM USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Strike Zone (Dale Brown's Dreamland) (Mass Market Paperback)

Although I have never been a fan of the double author book idea, Dale and Jim seem to have a good thing going here. Strike Zone continues the main characters as they continue to provide the President with options without an all out war. The story opens up slower than the other novels in this series, but as always, the action scenes are fantastic. As a first reader, this one would hold it's own, and if you have the others in the series, it's a MUST HAVE.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SUSPENSE FILLED LISTENING, February 1, 2004

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Gail Cooke (TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dale Brown's Dreamland: Strike Zone CD (Dreamland (Harper Audio)) (Audio CD)

Dale Brown, popular author who has penned fourteen New York times bestsellers, is a former Air Force bombardier. He's an ace pilot as well as a first-rate author. Teaming with Jim DeFelice the pair offer a suspenseful high-tech military thriller.

A dynamite performance by JK Simmons makes sparks fly from the opening lines of this action packed tale.

Far out in the Nevada dessert some of the best minds are focused on warfare in the future. Dreamland force has had their hands more than full in stopping an Asian war that could have been a nuclear holocaust destroying the world as we now know it.

However, an even greater challenge is soon to arrive - radar detection shows there is a major threat nearby. It's a robot warplane capable of unheard of destruction. The "ghost clone" as it is called has no known origin but more than one of them could turn our world into a fiery inferno.

How can this warplane be found and stopped?

A complexly devised plot makes for nonstop listening.

- Gail Cooke

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Strike Zone Revisited, May 28, 2007

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Carl Warren Andreasen (Mesa, Arizona, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Strike Zone (Dale Brown's Dreamland) (Mass Market Paperback)

When I saw the paperback I checked my library which holds all of Dale Brown's work and I did not find it, so I bought it. As I read the book I soon relized I had read it before. I still read the book (again) and once more enjoyed it. If you like Dale Brown, Strike Zone is up to his normal standard. The theme is the tension between Taiwan and mainland China and the desire by some to start a war between China and the USA, which would leave China in a weakend or defeated state. China is not able to take Taiwan by force, especially with USA backing. Taiwan is not strong enough to take China in open warfare, but if the right people had the funding, and some nukes, and the right delivery system, and China were beat down by a war with the USA, that could kill a lot of people and upset the balance of power and bring down China. Of course, Dreamland gets the task of finding out what is going on, and then stopping it. It is no easy task for Dreamland and it is not without cost, but of course Dreamland saves the world again.

My only disappointment is that I can't find my original copy of Strike Zone, which is most likely a hard cover book.