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Title: Chains of Command by Dale Brown ISBN: 0-425-14207-8 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 10 July, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (18 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: First time Dale Brown reader - enjoyed it to the end
Comment: I haven't read many of these war/espionage novels, but this one I picked up before a long flight and I stayed glued until the finish. I thought that the F-111 flying narratives and the techno-aviation stuff were terrific (maybe because I'm a pilot). The political intrigue was well constructed, and perhaps even scary because it seemed too close to reality. The clash between the Turkish, and the US Air Force's use of women combat pilots, was also an intriguing element for me and I thought that Brown did an astute job in portraying the depth of cultural mismatch. Fast moving and easy to read, yet tense and exciting.
Rating: 1
Summary: Petty Politics and Poor Plot
Comment: Dale Brown has much technical information about the F-111, and he batters his reader with the most insignificant, irrelevant detail. And while his irrelevant details about the aircraft might be at least accurate, most of the other basic machinery of his plots is not. He'd like to champion the liberal treatment on the part of the all-wise US military in general and Dale Brown in particular of the female warrior in contrast with the backward Turks. Fact is, however, that Turkish military forces have long had women in combat positions. His geography is often just plain wrong. But it is Brown's incessant, hysterical, and thoroughly irrelevant bashing of the Clintons that completely destroys any claim CHAINS OF COMMAND might have of being a novel. In his hate-filled brain, military officers, both junior and senior, curse their commander-in-chief and the First Lady with great frequency. Good military personnel in fact do no such thing. Whatever they may think, a good military woman or man understands the way the United States chain of command works. And in this same hate-filled imagination of his, Brown creates wholly unbelievable situations that make the Clintons, and folks from Arkansas generally, look and act like clowns. No matter whether one voted for Bill or Hillary Clinton or ever would, the pure venom spewed by Brown ruins what could have been a passible novel. I can't read Brown anymore. I can't bring myself to wade through the pettiness of his political and technical irrelevancies and incorrectness to get at the one or two solid elements of his story.
Rating: 4
Summary: Another winner for Dale Brown
Comment: Another great thriller from DB. In this one you have a bit of a change from the normal Patrick McClannahan story and you meet Mace as well as the "Iron Maiden". The world has changed and many of the fighter pilots are now part of the reserves, and a huge percentage of them are women. See what they have to do to become fighter pilots.
You will also learn a lot about photon bombs and their destruction of life etc. In this story you will cover a lot of ground from the Ukraine, Turkey to Plattsburgh NY as well as Iraq. It is a fast paced story with the normal plethora of detail on military actions as well as equipment from DB. I really enjoyed this story but I think Fatal Terrain is my favorite so far...
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Title: Storming Heaven by Dale Brown ISBN: 0425147231 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Sky Masters by Dale Brown ISBN: 0425132625 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Night of the Hawk by Dale Brown ISBN: 0425136612 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: May, 1993 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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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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