Shadows of Steel (Patrick McLanahan #5) (Hardcover) Dale Brown

Book 5 of 20: Patrick McLanahan

The world is a dangerous place. Hardly a revelation, but for the new president of the United States, nothing drives it home more forcefully than the sight of a newly nucler Iran throwing its weight around the Persian Gulf, while the United States stands by uneasily, its military weakened by year of budget cuts and umpopular, inconclusive police actions.

But there is one weapon he can use, and he does so now: the newest secret cell of the CIA's Intelligence Support Agency, code-named Future Flight. Take a group with speed, skill, and audacity, put a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber in its hands, then send it out to find Iran's key military, industrial, and command centers, and destroy them: quickly, quietly, secretly, untraceable--the ultimate stealth attack.

Under the command of aerial strike warfare expert Patrick McLanahan, the team begins its mission brilliantly--and then all hell breaks loose, as Iran and its allies take their war of intimidation further than anyone thought they would. With the Persian Gulf tottering and the situation escalating hourly, only the men and women of Future Flight, and their commando brethren, stand between the Untied States and a catastrophe of worldwide proportions.

April 2024