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Title: Warrior Class by Dale Brown ISBN: 0425184463 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 07 May, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.31
Rating: 5
Summary: Bad Guys abhor a vacuum
Comment: Dale Brown infuses Warrior Class with more politics than in previous books I have read. While I am not sure his President Thorn could be elected, I am intrigued by the problem he creates.
The new President decides it is time for America to fold her tent in Europe and Asia and return all forward deployed forces back to CONUS. This is isolationism taken to its extreme. This creates a huge power vacuum (that pretty well mirrors the inadequacies of the real world European Union). Into the breach steps a Russian Mafioso named Kazakov. He gains access to a stealth bomber of dubious origin and commences to prosecute a private foreign policy.
There is plenty of cutting edge military hardware and air to air combat in the book. But the real crux of the matter is the world that emerges as America withdraws. I think most American would appreciate an occaisional thank you instead of stick in the eye, but there is a very serious and underlying message here: Can we as a nation afford to luxury of packing our bags and retreating behind our oceans, or do we have a national security interest in maintaining a global military posture?
There is plenty here to consider and it is wrapped up in a good story.
Douglas De Bono
Author of ROGUE STATE
and the upcoming Terror Wars Series
Rating: 5
Summary: Totally Enjoyable and Entertaining Military Fiction.
Comment: I'm a gearhead. I race cars, I work on computers, I like knowing how stuff works. Brown gives you lots of juicy details about how he envisions hypothetical technologies working. He isnt afraid to go out on a limb and invent stuff that doesnt exist -- but he does the reader the courtesy of at least explaining how he believes it would work.
Dale Brown does an excellent job of dreaming up fictitious war machines. Imagine the "Red October" submarine -- only twice as dangerous. Manned by gregarious and charismatic characters that keep you interested and "rooting for the good guys."
Brown is not particularly good at writing a realistic novel. It is my assertion however, that he does not set out intent to do so. He writes books about the superheros of warfare in the sense that Comic Book authors write about various super powers.
He has a vivid imagination and a seemingly accurate grasp of where things in the world lie, and paints a semibelievable political situation.
He has an uncanny knack for combat scenes. It's very cool to read twenty pages of one engagement. This is something Clancy doesnt do. Clancy is interested in the "bigger picture." Brown actually "zooms in" and lets you take part in the nitty gritty, people-are-dying-and-bombs-are-flying melee.
There is I guess only one real complaint I have about this book, and I have had it about his previous books (and kept coming back): His extensive use of (correct) russian. I'm not interested in reading russian in italics and attempting to figure out what it means later (as it turns out I have a native russian co-worker). However the book was enormously entertaining and kept me up a couple nights to finish it.
Certainly recommended to fans of Brown in general, and possibly recommended to people looking for a change from the dry cookie cutter stuff Clancy has been writing for years.
Rating: 5
Summary: Warrior Class
Comment: Warrior Classs is another excellent military thriller from Dale Brown. The story involves Russian criminal Pavel Kazakov wanting to build a massive oil pipeline through many countries that are not agreeing with the idea. Kazakov uses a stealth fighter to bring chaos to the Balkans in hopes of initiating war and it is up to regular Brown character Patrick McLanahan to stop him. The book is well written and as always the hi-tech air combat scenes are vividly described in great detail. The story ends with the formation of the Night Stalkers, which will continue into Brown's next one, Wings of Fire.
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Title: Wings of Fire by Dale Brown ISBN: 0399148604 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Battle Born by Dale Brown ISBN: 0553580035 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Dale Brown's Dreamland: Razor's Edge by Dale Brown, Jim DeFelice ISBN: 0060094397 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 31 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Dale Brown's Dreamland by Dale Brown, Jim Defelice, James Defelice ISBN: 0425181200 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 12 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Dale Brown's Dreamland: Nerve Center by Dale Brown, Jim Defelice, James Defelice ISBN: 0425187721 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 02 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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