Air Battle Force

By: Dale Brown

Narrated by: William Dufris

On America's newest combat base, U.S. Air Force aerial warfare expert Major General Patrick McLanahan and his crew of daring engineers are devising the air combat unit of the future. Known as Air Battle Force, it can launch concentrated, stealthy, precision-guided firepower to any spot on the globe within hours. And soon McLanahan and his warriors will have their first target.

Chased out of Afghanistan, Taliban fighters are planning to invade the neighboring oil-rich Republic of Turkmenistan, an isolated and wealthy central Asian state. As alliances form and forces collide, the impending battle for control of the world's largest oil deposits threatens to tear apart the tenuous peace created by America's victories in Afghanistan. It's up to McLanahan and a handful of American commandos half a world away, aided by an untested and unproven force of robotic warplanes, to win a war in which everyone, even "friendly" forces at home, wants them to fail.

©2003 Dale Brown (P)2003 HarperCollinsPublishers, Inc.

Critic reviews

"This absorbing psychological novel of revenge shows British author McDermid at the top of her form....Outstanding pacing, character and plot development, plus evocative place descriptions, make this another winner." (Publishers Weekly)
"Masterful mixing of forensic science with brisk plots and in-depth characterization." (Booklist)
"Cunningly plotted." (The New York Times Book Review)

Good Book

It is a good book to show the United States military might, political, calm against Russia, and crushing strength to accomplish the mission.

Spellbinding

Keeps you at the edge of your seat. Makes you want these aircraft and want to fly them yourself. In the long version, there are times that it drags. But the characters have enough other stuff going on that it is OK. You cannot have action every minute of a 14 hour book! The action here is great though.

ABF

Awesome book, okay narrarator. He sounds like an idiot when he does the Rebecca's voice. Overall, awesome.

great military novel

I enjoyed a lot. Specially the realism of the scenes inside the fighter and bombers.

Brown Still Aflight

Engaging characters and plot as always. A lot of fast-paced action and of course, plenty of toys. What some listeners may find distasteful are some of the questionable alliances formed by the heroes in the story. At any other point in history, they may simply have added intrigue but probably not a good move on Brown’s part in this political climate. Some enemies are those of circumstance; some are those of principle.

More town tech magic

Story/plot well developed. Action well paced and refined. Characters matured and 3 dimensional. Narration enhances experience. Highly recommend if you like genre

Like arguing Arabs?

I buy these books for the flying stories. When we finally get to that they’re good.
There is far too much time and energy spent listening to Arabs arguing as planning destruction. I skipped through all of it. Many chapters I just skipped through.

Excellent read

Had to go back in the series to find out how certain characters came about... I was NOT disappointed. If you like the Dreamland series you have to have this in your library.

Can’t get Enough!

Dale Brown is an Author of all Autors. The Mc Clanahan series is 5 Stars
I will be bummed when it is over. Hope that’s still a ways off.

Decent story

This is the first Dale Brown book I have read. That being said, I thought it was a good book with a decent storyline. It was somewhat predictable if you read Clancy and others like him I would read another of his books.