Helpful Score: 3
Dale Brown is just at the top of his game. From start to finish it is solid edge of the seat suspense. This gentleman has the power to hold your interest from start to finish. Dale Brown is a great writer.
Ruth F. (thrillerscififan) reviewed Flight of the Old Dog (Patrick McLanahan, Bk 1) on + 13 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Dan Brown at his military best. He is a great tech writer for military buffs and the plot was OK for the era it was written in. I do recomend it for aviation fans because as far as I can tell, not being an airforce pilot just an airforce wife, very accurate in the details.
Barbara R. (Crop4Fun) reviewed Flight of the Old Dog (Patrick McLanahan, Bk 1) on + 1217 more book reviews
When the Soviet Union masters "Star Wars" technology, rendering the U.S.'s arsenal of nuclear missiles impotent, America's only hope lies in The Old Dog Zero One--a battle-scarred bomber fully renovated with enough weaponry and stealth hardware to earn it the nickname, "Megafortress".
OK plot, not a big D.B. fan.
"The unthinkable has happeded. The Soviet Union has mastered "Star Wars" technologh before the US..."
GREAT read....
GREAT read....
Steve K. (Steve154) reviewed Flight of the Old Dog (Patrick McLanahan, Bk 1) on + 11 more book reviews
Very good read This book got me into Dale Brown
Carolyn P. (CarolynP) reviewed Flight of the Old Dog (Patrick McLanahan, Bk 1) on + 54 more book reviews
Good military action novel, but it contained a lot of technical jargon/information. At first I tried to keep up with the technical passages, but eventually I just skimmed over them.
Classic Dale Brown, and the book that brought him to the forefront of military fiction writers. Highly recommended!
Jeff C. (ozymandias) reviewed Flight of the Old Dog (Patrick McLanahan, Bk 1) on + 11 more book reviews
This is a fun little sci-fi/military fiction about an older plane being used as a testbed for new technology becoming the most important single aircraft in the whole world.
This is set back a few years, with the Cold War still running strong, and some of the 'futuristic' technology feels a little dated and cumbersome, but is still believable.
This is set back a few years, with the Cold War still running strong, and some of the 'futuristic' technology feels a little dated and cumbersome, but is still believable.
Candace G. (Ogre) reviewed Flight of the Old Dog (Patrick McLanahan, Bk 1) on + 1568 more book reviews
Techno thriller near future: The unthinkable has happened. The Soviet Union has mastered Star Wars technology before the U.S. and has neutralized America's arsenal of nuclear missles with a killer laser that can direct its superheated beam of energy to targets across the globe. Confronted by the loss of its nucler shield and weakened by a series of provocative attacks, the U.S. calls on the one bomber in its fleet capable of destroying the laser before it is too late: The Old Dog Zero One, a battle-scarred veteral of countless campaigns which has had its antiquated weapons-systems removed and replaced with never-yet-used state-of-the-art armaments and stealth hardware. To this antiquated phoenix is given the near impossible task of outwitting Russia's air defense. Crewed by an intrepid group of men and women, the Old Dog challenges all that Russia can send against it.
Great suspense, good characters. I almost made myself late to work the following day because I couldn't put it down without knowing how things turned out.
Great suspense, good characters. I almost made myself late to work the following day because I couldn't put it down without knowing how things turned out.
Rebecca W. (RebekaHarn) reviewed Flight of the Old Dog (Patrick McLanahan, Bk 1) on + 36 more book reviews
From Publishers Weekly
It is not the Reagan Administration that has secretly been developing a Strategic Defense Initiative in this first book by retired USAF Captain Brown, but the Soviets, and as soon as the system comes on line, the Russians flagrantly attack American intelligence and military craft with their laser weapon. The President and his advisors appeal to the UN Security Council; they even dispatch sophisticated B-1 bombers and a new, armed space satellite, but both are thwarted, and the U.S. is left dangerously incapable of detecting a missile launch from the eastern U.S.S.R. Desperate, they decide to send a souped-up veteran B-52 bomber, the Old Dog, and its expert navigator Patrick McLanahan on a crucial mission into Siberia to neutralize the death ray. Brown knows his airborne and naval high-tech equipment and the cockpit bantering of crews, and can tell a basically interesting story. He does not, however, examine the frightening political consequences of the superpowers trading shots. The novel's excitement is essentially that of a boy's adventure fantasy rather than the well-realized suspense of a credible thriller. 75,000 first printing; $75,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selections; Military Book Club selection; author tour.
It is not the Reagan Administration that has secretly been developing a Strategic Defense Initiative in this first book by retired USAF Captain Brown, but the Soviets, and as soon as the system comes on line, the Russians flagrantly attack American intelligence and military craft with their laser weapon. The President and his advisors appeal to the UN Security Council; they even dispatch sophisticated B-1 bombers and a new, armed space satellite, but both are thwarted, and the U.S. is left dangerously incapable of detecting a missile launch from the eastern U.S.S.R. Desperate, they decide to send a souped-up veteran B-52 bomber, the Old Dog, and its expert navigator Patrick McLanahan on a crucial mission into Siberia to neutralize the death ray. Brown knows his airborne and naval high-tech equipment and the cockpit bantering of crews, and can tell a basically interesting story. He does not, however, examine the frightening political consequences of the superpowers trading shots. The novel's excitement is essentially that of a boy's adventure fantasy rather than the well-realized suspense of a credible thriller. 75,000 first printing; $75,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selections; Military Book Club selection; author tour.
