| Front Cover |
Book Details |
|
| Author |
|
| Selling Price |
$9.99
|
| Genre |
Fiction |
| Publication Date |
1992 |
| Format |
Hardcover
(250
mm)
|
| Publisher |
G. P. Putnam's Sons |
| Language |
English |
| Extras |
Dust Jacket |
|
| Plot |
From "the best military adventure writer in the country today" (so raves Clive Cussler) comes an electrifying story dealing with the complicated - and deadly - challenges facing the United States after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Night of the Hawk is the final episode in the incredible saga of the crew of the "Old Dog," a high-tech B-52 bomber that won Dale Brown millions of readers with his classic best-seller, Flight of the Old Dog. Five years have passed since Brown introduced a remarkable group of American airmen who undertook a near impossible raid into Soviet territory. One of them - First Lieutenant David Luger - sacrificed his life to save his fellow crew members, and his body was left behind in the frozen wastes of Siberia.
But Luger didn't die. His battered body was nursed back to health by his captors, and his mind was emptied, then reprogrammed, by a ruthless, ambitious KGB officer who spirited him away to a top-secret design facility in Lithuania. Single-handedly, the brainwashed Luger helped advance Soviet state-of-the-art technology by leaps, creating their first stealth bomber, the Fisikous-170 Tuman.
As political events eclipse even the amazing advancements made by Luger in the secret facility, and the Soviet Union collapses, the KGB officer in charge of Luger and the Tuman finds his prize project in jeopardy. In bold collusion with an ambitious general from neighboring Byelorussia, he master-minds an incredible power play - one that will not only save the secret facility, but allow Lithuania to be overrun and reunited with Byelorussia. The combined nation will be one of the strongest industrial and military powers in the world. Its ace in the hole: tactical nuclear weapons that were never returned to the Commonwealth of Independent States after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
By a twist of fate. General Brad Elliott of the U.S. High Technology Aerospace Weapons Center in Nevada discovers that David Luger is alive and in the secret facility. Together with a U.S. Marines special operations assault team and the original crew of the Old Dog, including Patrick McLanahan, an extraction mission is planned to get Luger out of the compound in Lithuania. But as the mission gets under way, the Byelorussian general makes his military play for Lithuania, and the Old Dog crew and Marines are caught inside the enemy compound. It is a crisis that could, in the blink of an eye, explode into full-scale war. As the president of the United States and his advisors weigh their options, the crew of the Old Dog devise a few plans of their own. . . . Filled with all the suspense and excitement that readers have come to expect from Dale Brown, Night of the Hawk is his most explosive story to date, gripping from its first page to its breathtaking finish.
Dale Brown, pictured above in the Oval Office recently with President George Bush, is a former U.S. Air Force captain who served as a navigator from 1978 to 1986, logging thousands of hours aboard both B-52 and FB-111 bombers. Besides Flight of the Old Dog, he is the author of five best-selling novels, including Sky Masters, Hammerheads, and Day of the Cheetah. He lives in northern California.
Jacket design and illustration
© 1992 by Rob Wood, Stansbury Ronsaville Wood, Inc.
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
a member of
The Putnam Berkley Group, Inc. |
| Personal Details |
| Condition |
Fine |
| Owner |
FamilyHistorySites |
| FHS ItemID |
20041060 |
|
| Product Details |
| LoC Classification |
PS3552.R68543 |
| Dewey |
813.54 |
| ISBN |
0399137394 |
| Nr of Pages |
462 |
|
|
