Hidden in the Nevada desert is Americas most advanced aerospace weapons testing facility. Dreamland is the place where the nations top minds come to develop artillery and aircraft that push beyond the cutting edge. And where the Air Forces top guns come to test themon the front lines of a new era in warfare
The fiasco of a spys infiltration has the Pentagon looking for an excuse to close Dreamland down. To clean up the messand save Dreamland from the Congressional chopping blockLt. Colonel William Tecumseh Dog Bastian is sent in. Hes just the guy to shake things upand does when a situation erupts in Somalia. Into a hotter-than-hot war zone, he sends his own daughterthe pilot of a Megafortress bomberand a high-tech, unmanned flight system that could make or break the future of Dreamland
From Publishers Weekly
Few novelists can craft an aerial battle scene more strategically than former U.S. Air Force Capt. Brown (Warrior Class, etc.), and he and DeFelice (Coyote Bird) are in fine form here. Set deep in the Nevada desert, Dreamland is the place where top minds converge to develop cutting-edge artillery and aircraft. The discovery of a spy among the ranks of Dreamland's top pilots unnerves the elite air force personnel assigned to the base and starts a downward spiral in spirits. When Lt. Col. Tecumseh "Dog" Bastian is appointed to keep Dreamland off the Pentagon's chopping block, morale is at an all-time low. Bastian's daughter, Capt. Breanna Bastian Stockard, is one of Dreamland's best pilots, as was her husband, Maj. Jeff "Zen" Stockard, before a training mishap landed him in a wheelchair. Together, father, daughter and son-in-law lead a team into battle-torn Somalia using the Megafortress test bomber, securing Dreamland's funding and restoring its dignity. In such a technically charged story, the sheer number of characters inconsistently referred to by their nicknames and real names parading in and out of the narrative only creates confusion. Although experienced military-thriller readers will marvel at the fast pace of this novel, novices may be left behind.
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"Dale Brown is a superb storyteller." -- -- W.E.B. Griffin
"The best military adventure writer in the country today." -- -- Clive Cussler