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Bezig met laden... Battle Born (1999)door Dale Brown
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  bratell | Dec 25, 2020 |   It begins with a joint U.S.-Japanese-South Korean mock bombing raid. But the South Korean fighter pilots don't stick to the script. Instead, they race across the border into North Korea to support a massive people's revolt against the Communists. Virtually overnight, the fledgling United Korea is the world's newest nuclear power, igniting a fuse that threatens to blow Asia apart and trigger World War III. Only McLanahan has the top-secret aviation technology and the brash young heroes to stop the coming inferno -- if he can get them to stop fighting each other and start fighting as a team before the world is reduced to cinders! PPLL2020 | Aug 27, 2020 | My only criticism would be that more time was spent on the characters than the conflict, and that some of the technology involved was getting to the fanciful end of the spectrum (eg the implants). That being said the book was a real page turner and both exciting and detailed. This chapter of the series revolves around the B-1 Bomber (officially Lancer, unofficially Bone) being tooled up in the manner seen in past books and sent in to diffuse tensions in Korea where North & South Korea have reunified. Would read again. (  ) HenriMoreaux | Mar 30, 2013 |  ) tuffsme | Aug 29, 2011 |  ) Borg-mx5 | Apr 1, 2010 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Fiction.
Thriller.
HTML:Author of an extraordinary string of New York Times bestselling novels, Dale Brown is the undisputed master of the aerial techno-thriller. Filled with explosive adventure, unforgettable characters, and authentic technology set against political scenarios so real they often anticipate world events, each of Dale Brown's novels is a major event. Now he returns to the airspace only he can truly call his own, in a blockbuster novel about a world on the brink of World War III and a new generation of brash young heroes... Patrick McLanahan is back. The veteran navigator-bombardier and brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force has been sent to a B-1B Lancer unit in Nevada to develop and train a tactical strike unit designed to seek out and destroy enemy missiles. He has his pick of the most aggressive Type A personalities in the flying game, though it may take years to pull this bunch of mavericks together to fight as a team. Then time runs out. The fragile peace in Asia is shattered when what was supposed to be a joint U.S.-Japan-South Korea mock bombing raid turns lethal. Instead of hewing to the script, South Korean fighter-bombers streak north to destroy several North Korean command-and-control, special forces, and secret police centers in support of a massive people's revolt against the Communist regime. To the world's surprise, the raids are a complete success. The North Korean military surrenders. The borders are thrown wide open and the United Republic of Korea is born. But this United Korea is also the world's newest nuclear power. It refuses to destroy thousands of captured nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, which it sees as potent protection against the massive threat of China to its north. Vowing never again to be anyone's puppet, it is ready to defy the United States and even attack China in order to preserve its sovereignty. Thus begins a conflict that threatens to embroil all of Asia. Enter McLanahan's raw, audacious team. Sent into the fray both to protect United Korea and to stop it from touching off World War III, Patrick's small but potent hunter-killer bomber force has the world's newest, most powerful nonnuclear weapon at its disposalâ??if its aces ever stop fighting each other long enough to start fighting the enemy.... Relentlessly paced, filled with the you-are-there feel of supersonic flight, Battle Born delivers the technology, action, and drama that Brown fans savor. It is this marvelous storyteller's most exciting and satisfying novel y Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.4)
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The author still hadn't caught on to the longevity of B-52. The book is in a time of reduced military budgets and he has more or less scrapped them all. Instead the focus is on B-1 Lancer (Bone) planes which are described as being as fast and agile as a fighter but with the bomb load of a B-52. Allow me to not put those statements in the "fact" column.
I don't really find Dale Brown's obsessions with nuclear weapons entertaining. Nuclear weapons have shock value, both in the real world and in the imaginary world in the books, but not if they are used over and over again. And the effects of them, short term and long therm, are glossed over. It's like it's Dale Brown's favourite toy and he brings it to every party.
Still, overall much more in this book is believable compared to his earlier books. I'm almost giving it three stars, but after all, there is too much over acting, weapon polishing and macho grunting. (