Dale Brown is an author most famous for his military techno-thrillers. He was a navigator in the US Air Force for seven years, eventually achieving the rank of Captain, before retiring. He flew the FB-111 and B-52. He wrote his first book, Flight of the Old Dog, just after retiring. He has written twenty two books, thirteen of which have become New York Times best-sellers. He lives near Reno, Nevada, with his wife and son. He frequently enjoys flying his own jet, a Gulfstream II .
Mr. Brown developed the story for the Act of War, an ambitious real-time strategy game with a strong emphasis on the story.
Bibliography
- Flight of the Old Dog (1987)
- Patrick McLanahan leads a crew of engineers aboard the "Old Dog" to destroy a Soviet ground-based laser site.
- Silver Tower (1988)
- The world's first military space station is America's only chance against a Soviet invasion of Iran.
- Day of the Cheetah (1989)
- A Soviet deep-cover agent steals the world's most sophisticated jet fighter --a nd nearly destroys McLanahan and the High Technology Aerospace Weapons Center .
- Hammerheads (1990)
- America's first border security force takes on a fearsome Cuban military drug smuggling gang.
- Sky Masters (1991)
- Patrick McLanahan and the heavy bombers of the U.S. Air Battle Force leads the American counterattack against a Chinese invasion of the Philippines.
- Night of the Hawk (1992)
- Patrick McLanahan leads a special operations team into Lithuania to rescue a long-lost fellow crewdog .
- Chains of Command (1993)
- 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.
- Storming Heaven (1994)
- 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.
- Shadows of Steel (1996)
- The United States sends Patrick McLanahan and a secret B-2 Spirit stealth bomber unit over Iran to stop a new Persian Gulf war .
- Fatal Terrain (1997)
- 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.
- The Tin Man (1998)
- 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.
- Battle Born (1999)
- Patrick McLanahan 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.
- Warrior Class (2001)
- 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.
- Wings of Fire (2002)
- Patrick McLanahan flies into a storm of troubles in a spectacular new thriller, packed with high-adrenalin flying action and adventure.
- Air battle Force (2003)
- Maverick Pilot Patrick McLanahan Takes aerial warfare into unknown territory in a heart racing new adventure.
- Plan of Attack (2004)
- Act of War (June 2005)
