Blackbird Author:Jack Merek Strapped into his gold-plated high-altitude suit, a veteran American pilot pushes the world's finest spy plane to the edge of the atmosphere -- flying faster than a .30-06 bullet, outrunning SAMs, soaring over scrambling MIGs. Major General Scott Cartwright was hand-picked to stand down the SR-71. Instead, the Blackbird is the on... more »ly weapon the U.S. President has left...
The Middle East has exploded with all the insanity of today's headlines. A renegade Soviet faction has shot out the eyes of the American spy satellite program, and a secret biological weapons factory is primed for the annihilation of Israel. Now, Major General Cartwright and his Blackbird must go behind a curtain of deception to identify the real threat -- and bring back the one piece of intelligence that can avert a global war.« less