In a techno-thriller set in the near future, Castro declares war on the U.S. after a Stealth bomber hijacked by the KGB is landed in Cuba. Weber "gives readers a firm sense of what it is like to fly against modern air defenses," said PW . "The unsophisticated, two-dimensional characters are less convincing, however." Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
Glasnost and perestroika have been unsuccessful and the Soviet economy is reeling under the weight of its failed ideology. The KGB chief,...decides on a daring plan to seize America's most threatening new weapon.
Months later, on a routine training flight, a B-2 Stealth bomber...is hijacked by a civilian weapons technician turned traitor. At gunpoint, the pilots are forced to fly to Cuba -- a flight that, due to the radar-resistant properties of the aircraft, is untraceable.
As the superpowers waltz arm-in-arm in a deadly dance of nuclear brinkmanship, only one man (Steve Wickham) can save the plane and its crew -- and avert a global confrontation. Joe Weber, author of last year's sleeper, "Defcon One, returns with another brisk thriller. A sweeping story old with ringing prose and peppered with nail-biting shoot-outs, escapes, and military maneuvers, this novel is as action-packed as a high-tech aerial dogfight. "Shadow Flight" is techno-thriller action at its very best! -- Rave Reviews, August 1991
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In a techno-thriller set in the near future, Castro declares war on the U.S. after a Stealth bomber hijacked by the KGB is landed in Cuba. Weber "gives readers a firm sense of what it is like to fly against modern air defenses," said PW . "The unsophisticated, two-dimensional characters are less convincing, however."
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
Glasnost and perestroika have been unsuccessful and the Soviet economy is reeling under the weight of its failed ideology. The KGB chief,...decides on a daring plan to seize America's most threatening new weapon.
Months later, on a routine training flight, a B-2 Stealth bomber...is hijacked by a civilian weapons technician turned traitor. At gunpoint, the pilots are forced to fly to Cuba -- a flight that, due to the radar-resistant properties of the aircraft, is untraceable.
As the superpowers waltz arm-in-arm in a deadly dance of nuclear brinkmanship, only one man (Steve Wickham) can save the plane and its crew -- and avert a global confrontation. Joe Weber, author of last year's sleeper, "Defcon One, returns with another brisk thriller. A sweeping story old with ringing prose and peppered with nail-biting shoot-outs, escapes, and military maneuvers, this novel is as action-packed as a high-tech aerial dogfight. "Shadow Flight" is techno-thriller action at its very best! -- Rave Reviews, August 1991