Captain Dale Brown, USAF graduated
from Penn State University with a degree in Western European History and received an Air Force commission in 1978. He was
a navigator-bombardier in the B-52G Stratofortress heavy bomber and the FB-111A supersonic medium bomber, and is the recipient
of several military decorations and awards including the Air Force Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster, the Combat Crew
Award, and the Marksmanship ribbon. Dale
Brown is the author of: Silver Tower; Flight of the Old Dog; Hammerheads; Sky Masters; Night of the Hawk; Chains
of Command; Storming Heaven; Day of the Cheetah; Shadows of Steel; Fatal Terrain; The Tin Man; Battle Born; Warrior Class;
Wings of Fire; Air Battle Force; Plan of Attack; Act of War; Edge of Battle; Strike Force; and, Shadow Command.
According to the book description
of Shadow Command, “Maverick air and space warfare commander Patrick McLanahan is forced to
do the unthinkable: defy his commander-in-chief and wage war against his comrades-in-arms.” According to the book description of Strike Force,
“When a disgraced former Iranian military chief of staff engineers an insurgency that threatens to destroy the theocratic
regime in Iran, a new era appears to be dawning in the Middle East . . . but one must be wary of old enemies.”
According to the book description
of Edge of Battle, “Violence and tensions along the U.S.-Mexican border have never been higher,
sparked by battles between rival drug lords and an increased flow of illegal migrants. To combat the threat, the U.S. has
executed Operation Rampart: a controversial test base in southern California run by Major Jason Richter and members of Task
Force TALON.” According to the book description
of Act of War, it “introduces a whole new hero and a new conflict to techno-thriller fans
around the world.” According to the book description
of Plan of Attack, “The unthinkable is about to happen in this high-flying novel of adventure
and suspense.”
According to the book description
of Air Battle Force, “Maverick Pilot Patrick McLanahan Takes aerial warfare into unknown territory
in a heart racing new adventure. According
to the book description of Wings of Fire, “Patrick McLanahan flies into a storm of troubles
in a spectacular new thriller, packed with high-adrenalin flying action and adventure.”
According to the book description
of Warrior Class, “The world is falling apart, and there are plenty of people willing to take
advantage. One of them is Parvel Kazakov, a Russian oilman with close ties to organized crime and an audacious idea: build
a huge pipeline through the Balkans, get the Russian army to back him and everybody gets rich. Though NATO will object, the
new American President's emphatic policy of isolationism will guarantee no effective opposition. Russia will dominate
Europe. Kazakov will dominate the oil supply.” According to the book description of Battle Born, “Dale Brown creates a whole new
challenge for aerial combat expert Patrick McLanahan. He must turn a group of young, maverick pilots into America's premier
tactical strike force. And with war erupting over Asia, time is definitely not on his side.”
According to the book description
of The Tin Man, “Patrick McLanahan is back from the conflicts overseas--but the fighting is
not over. When an old enemy hatches a daring, deadly plot in Patrick's home town, he must transform himself into a weapon
of war.” According to the book description
of Fatal Terrain, “The return of the EB-52 "Megafortress," the "Old Dog."
A skirmish between China and Taiwan goes nuclear, and the crew of the Megafortress goes on the hunt to to stop the Chinese
war machine.” According to the book description
of Shadows of Steel, “The United States sends Patrick McLanahan and a secret B-2 stealth bomber
unit over Iran to stop a new Persian Gulf war.” According to the book description of Day of the Cheetah, “A Soviet deep-cover agent
steals the world's most sophisticated jet fighter--and nearly destroys McLanahan and the High Technology Aerospace Weapons
Center.”
According to the book description
of Storming Heaven, “Admiral Ian Hardcastle must set up an air defense network inside the
United States to stop a terrorist from attacking the largest U.S. airports-and Washington, DC itself.” According to the book description of Chains
of Command, “A fledgling Air Force Reserve unit, led by the Air Force's first female combat pilot,
spearheads the U.S. response to a Russian invasion of the Ukraine.” According to the book description of Night of the Hawk, “Patrick
McLanahan leads a special operations team into Lithuania to rescue a long-lost fellow crewdog.” According to the book description of Sky Masters,
“Patrick McLanahan and the heavy bombers of the U.S. Air Battle Force leads the American counterattack against a Chinese
invasion of the Philippines”
According to the book description
of Hammerheads, “America's first border security force takes on a fearsome Cuban military
drug smuggling gang.” According to the book description of Flight of the Old Dog, “One of the world's
classic military action-adventure novels. Patrick McLanahan leads a crew of engineers aboard the "Old Dog" to destroy
a Soviet ground-based laser site.” According to the book description of Silver Tower, “The
world's first military space station is America's only chance against a Soviet invasion of Iran.”
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