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Descripción editorial
After the towers fall on 9/11, Lieutenant Nick Baron and the rest of the 81st Fighter Squadron are desperate for action. But CENTCOM puts them on the sidelines, leaving the young Warthog pilots restless—and reckless. Then the unthinkable happens. During a high-risk training flight, a rookie wingman slams into the ground.
In the darkness that follows, Nick wonders if he will ever learn to trust a wingman again—or even learn to trust himself. He will soon find out. Despite the black mark on his record, Nick’s application to the elite Stealth Wing is approved. A recruiter for a new covert team has taken note of Nick’s unique combination of skills. Suddenly Nick is swept into Operation Cerberus—a top secret mission that will take him from a harrowing flight over a black testing facility to a fight for his life on the Iraqi Dunes.
“Hannibal brings together a terrific mix of real air technology with intrigue and nonstop action. A true suspenseful story that will keep you turning the pages until the exciting finale; it really is a great tale.”—Clive Cussler
“Get out of the way, Nelson DeMille. Brad Thor—you’ve got competition!”—Raymond Benson
“A feast for thriller lovers!”—Grant Blackwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Kill Switch
INCLUDES A PREVIEW OF SHADOW CATCHER
James R. Hannibal (Lt Col, USAF Reserve), author of Shadow Maker and Shadow Catcher, is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy who has flown the A-10 Warthog, the MQ-1 Predator drone, and the top secret B-2 Stealth Bomber, totaling over a thousand combat and combat support hours. He regularly reviews terrorism-related nonfiction for the New York Journal of Books.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hannibal, a former air force officer, offers an insider s view into some of the U.S. Air Force s most intriguing weapons systems in his promising first novel, a post-9/11 thriller. Capt. Michael Victor Baron, a pilot in an A-10 Thunderbolt II Warthog squadron, has long yearned to transfer to the ultrasecret Stealth bomber program. When the opportunity finally arrives, Victor is surprised to find that he s been assigned to a site so secret that even Area 51 personnel aren t cleared for it. Victor s mission, using a new Stealth reconnaissance platform, is to kill a top al-Qaeda terrorist before the launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom. When Murphy s Law raises its ugly head, the hunter becomes the hunted. Hannibal demonstrates that high-tech weapons are only tools, and that it s the people doing the fighting who win the day. That parts of the book read like a field manual will please military fiction fans.
