Flight of the old dog, Dale Brown

 

It’s hard to convey what it was like living in the late 80’s when the Cold War was at its hight. The rhetoric from both sides and being told the end of the world is only four minutes away. Both sides staring each other down in Berlin and each performing exercises that put the other on alert. 

Dale Brown the author certainly knew about it, being enlisted on a front line F-111 squadron he was at the tip of the spear trained to to penetrate soviet defensive systems and obliterate the toughest targets deep in the Soviet Union. He brings all that knowledge to the page, this is an early book so it’s not polished but the aerial sequences are really well written and put you inside that aircraft with the fears and tensions of the crew and the manoeuvres of the aerial ballet making you clench as the unfold. 

The story is good a little bit embellished but that’s the whole point of the book and the imagination of the author. Patrick Mclanahan who would go on to have a 18 book sequence is the main protagonist an airforce captain working in a top secret base, with the Cold War on the edge of turning hot he’s given a secret mission in his top secret B-52 stealth prototype, put the soviet secret weapon out of operation before it causes carnage and the gives the enemy an opportunity for a large scale attack without prior warning. 

If you like aviation snd thrillers this is for you, like I said it’s not slick and polished but it’s a good story and worth a read. Dale Brown is a top aviation author and military analyst.

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