Arctic Storm Rising
A Novel
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- $139.00
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- $139.00
Descripción editorial
First in a new series from New York Times bestselling
author Dale Brown, featuring U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nick Flynn on
the hunt for Russian commandos in the mountains of Alaska.
After a CIA covert mission goes badly awry, U.S. Air Force
intelligence officer Nicholas Flynn is exiled to guard a remote radar post
along Alaska’s Arctic frontier. This dead-end assignment is designed to put his
career permanently on ice, but Flynn’s not the type to fade quietly into
obscurity...
As winter storms pound Alaska and northern Canada, Russian
aircraft begin penetrating deep into friendly airspace. Are these rehearsals
for a possible first strike, using Russia’s new long-range stealth cruise
missiles? Or is some other motive driving the Kremlin to take ever-increasing
risks along the hostile Arctic frontier separating two of the world’s great
powers?
When an American F-22 collides with one of the Russian
interlopers, things go south fast—in seconds, missiles are fired. There are no
survivors. Despite horrific weather, Flynn and his security team are ordered to
parachute into the area in a desperate bid to reach the crash sites ahead of
the Russians. It’s now obvious that the Pentagon and CIA are withholding vital
information, but Flynn and his men have no choice but to make the dangerous
jump.
Soon they’re caught in a deadly game of hide-and-seek with
Spetsnaz commandos operating covertly on American soil. It seems that the F-22s
and their Russian counterparts aren’t the first aircraft to have gone missing
in these desolate mountains. The Kremlin is hunting for the first prototype of
its new stealth bomber—which vanished on what was supposed to be a test
flight…while loaded with nuclear-armed stealth cruise missiles.
As Russia and the U.S. square off on the brink of
all-out-war, it’s up to Nick to find the missing bomber…and prevent a potential
nuclear holocaust.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This strong series launch from bestseller Brown (Eagle Station) introduces Capt. Nick Flynn, a smart-mouthed U.S. Air Force intelligence officer banished to a remote outpost in Alaska, where he heads up a ragtag bunch of similar military outcasts with little real responsibility. Suddenly, his unit is ordered into emergency action. The Pentagon has received word that a Russian supersecret stealth bomber, commandeered by Col. Alexei Petrov, has landed somewhere in the Alaskan wilderness, and Petrov is asking for $2.6 billion in exchange for revealing its location. As a winter storm builds, Flynn and his men parachute into the frozen frontier, poorly supplied, a traitor in their ranks, and facing Russia's elite spetznaz fighters. The brisk plot showcases the latest military technology and warfare techniques. The rough-and-ready Flynn, a handsome rogue with good social skills and a doer's mentality, gets lost at times amid the large cast, but the ending suggests he'll play a more central role in his next outing. Brown consistently entertains.
