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Day of the Cheetah (Patrick McLanahan Series #2)

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Day of the Cheetah (Patrick McLanahan Series #2)

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In this explosive New York Times bestseller, Dale Brown creates a shattering scenario of the ultimate race for technology...

America’s most advanced fighter plane, DreamStar, has been hijacked. To retrieve it, Lt. Col. Patrick McLanahan takes on his most perilous assignment since The Flight of the Old Dog.

The odds are against him. His aircraft, the Cheetah, hasn’t the speed, the power, or the technology of the DreamStar—his skills behind the stick are the only advantage he’s got. And so begins the greatest high-flying chase of all time...

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ISBN-13:	9780425120439
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/01/1990
Series:	Patrick McLanahan Series , #2
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.77(h) x 1.37(d)

About the Author

Former U.S. Air Force captain Dale Brown is the bestselling author of numerous action-adventure “techno-thriller” novels, including those in the Patrick McLanahan series and the Brad McLanahan series. He is the co-author—with Jim DeFelice—of the bestselling Dreamland techno-thriller series and the Puppet Master series. He is also a technical consultant on the Act of War PC real-time strategy game published by Atari Interactive, and the Megafortress PC flight simulator by Three-Sixty Pacific. His novels have been published in 11 languages and distributed to over 70 countries.

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Praise for Day of the Cheetah

“Terrific. Authentic and gripping!”—The New York Times

“Breathtaking dogfights...Exhilarating high-tech adventure!”—Library Journal

More Praise for Dale Brown

“One of the godfathers of techno-thrillers.”—The REAL Book Spy

“A superb storyteller.”—W.E.B. Griffin

“Exciting and intelligent entertainment.”—Mark Greaney

“The best military adventure writer in the country today.”—Clive Cussler

“There’s so much action here it’s a wonder there aren’t bullet holes and bomb craters on every page.”—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

Brown's third technothriller is based on a premise successfully developed a decade ago in Clive Thomas's Firefox : the theft of an advanced-design fighter. This time the year is 1996; the fighter is America's X-34 Dreamstar; and its secret is ANTARES: the interfacing of the pilot's nervous system and the aircraft's computer. The plane's hijack by its pilot, a KGB mole, sets the stage for a fast-moving spectrum of diplomatic and military measures to recover or destroy the prize without starting a world war. Ultimately the task falls to the Cheetah--an F-15 with its own updated avionics, but an ``older, less intelligent cousin'' of Dreamstar. Brown's action scenes are vivid; his descriptions of contemporary technology accurate; his projections into the near future of aircraft design convincing; and his characterization of the growing internal conflict in the mole has weight and substance. Among the book's flaws, however, is Brown's decision to depend heavily on characters first presented in Flight of the Old Dog , so that he frequently disrupts the narrative with references to the earlier mission. More seriously for a work of this genre, Brown seems at times almost bored with the fighter technology he is describing. Despite its drawbacks, however, this novel should be a strong contender in the summer's technothriller sweepstakes. $125,000 ad/promo; paperback rights to Berkley; BOMC featured selection; author tour. (July)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Keith James, the hottest pilot at Dreamland, a secret Air Force base in the Nevada desert, is the only man fully qualified to fly Dreamstar , a highly maneuverable fighter flown by computer software linked to the pilot's brain. But in 1996, James, a Soviet mole trained from childhood in his alter ego, steals Dreamstar . The Cheetah , an experimental F-15 fighter, must hunt it down and destroy it. The hero is ace B-52 navigator Pat McLanahan from Brown's first novel, The Flight of the Old Dog, assisted by the Old Dog's crew. Aviation buffs will delight in the breathtaking dogfights and air strikes. One must overlook improbable details, e.g., a computer tracking every synaptic impulse in the nervous system, bomber types leading a fighter research effort. Those willing to fly in Brown's imaginative skies can enjoy an exhilarating high-tech adventure. BOMC featured selection.)-- Elsa Pendleton, Computer Sciences Corp., Ridgecrest, Cal.

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