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Summary: Battle Bored
Review: If you like your Political Correctness hot and heavy,you'll love Battle Born. Have a blast counting the modern archtypyes so comman in todays Hollywood Films.Lieutentant Colonel Rebecca Furness;who out flies and out swears her PC squad. See Rebecca and Rinc (aka deadmeat) in the most stilted forced relationship on paper.You'll love Vice President Ellen and her tough as nails Secert Service Agent Corrie Law. If you can get by the characters,the plot has promise.However like Rinc flying skill ,it just doesn't deliver the goods on target. The climax is well... misplaced,it seems like it would belong in the middle of the book,a minor battle. It only the Koreans that made it remotely interesting,thus the two stars. This book reads as if Dale Brown is looking for a postion in the Clinton White House. I'll be dropping my copy off to local book drive,so beware out there.
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Summary: Battle Born
Review: gMissile one awayc launcher rotatingc missile two awayc missile three away!h As the aircraft released the missiles, suddenly, the enemy missile disappeared, not even having an explosion. The name of this book, gBattle Bornh really fits the plot of this story. The aircraft on the cover also shows the aircraft that is being used in the story, allowing us to imagine what is going on. This story starts at Korea, where the World War II is about to start. An unidentified aircraft runs into South Korea carrying a nuclear weapon. This incident threatened all the countries throughout the world. In the United States, General Samson had developed the Lancelot program, which will later become the strongest antiballistic weapon. To develop and lead the B-1 Lancers, Patrick McLanahan entered the secret base in Nevada. While the U.S. developed the Lancelot program, other countries were moving too... As reading this story, I had felt as if I was actually living in this story, watching all this happen. I think this is a great book and I recommend it.
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Summary: Thanks for the great reader reviews!
Review: Thanks for the great comments on "Battle Born," and thanks for the dozens of e-mail messages I receive every day. I'm glad my readers are happy that I returned to the skies, and I can assure them that I'll stay as long as they want me there!Yes, my books are technical, because that's what I'm fascinated with and I want to share my amazement with you. But I'll make sure the characters are like old friends--or blood enemies--to you. What's in the works? Book #13 is in the works, "Battle Born" will be a Bantam paperback in April, and I'm having fun! Patrick McLanahan will be back, and soon he'll be the boss! Look for me and my gang in an upcoming collection of novellas and a new action series too! Thanks for sharing the ride with me! Enjoy! Dale Brown Lake Tahoe, Nevada
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Summary: Brown's best yet
Review: Battle Born is great! I think reviews are most effective when you compare the book in question to others that most of us have read, so prospective readers have something to measure it against. Battle Born could be best described as a military thriller novel of action, suspense, and intrigue--with the relentless pace and stunning power of war novels like The Triumph and the Glory and The Bridges of Toko-ri, the plot twists of Grisham at his best, a theme worthy of Clancy's Clear and Present Danger, and an authoritative style that reflects Dale Brown's expertise in this genre.
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Summary: Thank God! The tim man's gone and the air craft are back.
Review: Every so often one of my favorite authors decides to seek another venue, and forsakes the old favorites. Harold Coyle did it with the Civil War and Dale Brown did it with Tin Man. Mr. Coyle made the mistake of continuing with his sojourn. Thank God Dale Brown returned to the venue which serves his readers best. This is an exciting military aviation thriller and I hope Dale Brown writes many more of these type novels.
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Summary: Dale Brown And Friends Are Back, And The Tinman Is Dead!
Review: I have always enjoyed Mr. Brown's work. "The Tin Man" ruined what had been a unbroken string of great work. This book is a first rate Dale Brown adventure. The book is well written, maintains a steady, fast pace that fans have loved since the original "Flight Of The Old Dog". I read the nearly 400 page book in 24 hours, it's that good. Dale Brown the original is back and at his best, and some old and new friends have come with him. "The Tin Man" is dead or in OZ which is where he should have stayed. Welcome back Dale Brown!
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Summary: Did I read the same book as everyone else?
Review: I hate to say it, but I found this book painfully SLOW. Yes, the plot moved along smartly, but not in a way that I cared about. The primary conflict doesn't arise until quite late in the book and our "heros", and I use the term loosley because I care not a whit about the charaters Mr. Brown created, see no real action until VERY late in the book. For my taste, he spent FAR too much time setting up the scenario and not enough time making me care about the characters. Tin Man, while admittedly hokey, at least saw the main character actively involved in fighting the bad guys from an early chapter. I struggled to finish Battle Born.
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Summary: TENSION FILLED READING
Review: For those who like their thrills laced with military action here is vintage Dale Brown. A former U.S. Air Force Captain who knows his subject well, Brown is recognized for his adroit delivery. Reprising his hero in former works, Patrick McLanahan, the author puts him in the thick of it immediately - leading a squadron of B-1 bombers into combat over Korea. The fragile Asian peace has been placed in jeopardy. Descriptions of weaponry and flying tactics abound, as is routine for Brown. If techno-thrillers are your meat - here's a hearty helping. Reader Purdham is especially convincing in relating an aerial dogfight - he renders the melee succinctly and suspensefully.
- Gail Cooke
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Summary: "One Heck Of An Intense Ride . . . I Mean, Flight."
Review: Brown knows how to keep you rivited. His battle scenes were written so well I didn't want to put the book down when I got to them. The entire downfall of North Korea takes 80-90 pages to get through, but with missiles flying, a "true-believer" Commie missile battery commander trying to preserve the spirit of the revolution and the US Vice President caught in the middle, you can't help but keep reading until the whole thing's over. Good job with the characters again. Many familiar faces in this one, including Becky Furness, the lady bomber pilot we last saw in "Chains of Command." The most intersting character has to be Rinc Seaver. He is a bit of an enigma when it comes to his motivation and his relationships with the rest of the cast, but that's what makes him so interesting. He also spends much of the book dealing with a training accident that killed two crew members. Creates quite a bit of tension among the people in his B-1 squadron. As usual, Brown throws a whole lot of way cool high tech weapons at you. I will agree with one point some have made. I think Brown glossed over the impact of using nukes and chem weapons on the Korean Peninsula. Besides the obvious political ramifications, all the fallout would severely effect the whole of Korea, and most likely surrounding countries. I wish that and the actual devestation they caused to Korean cities was touched on a lot more. But that's really my only big complaint with this novel. Other than that, total thumbs up.
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Summary: Solid but not spectacular??
Review: All things considered, Battle Born was an enjoyable book but, in my opinion, not among Brown's best efforts. The novel is set in the period following Brown's previous work, Fatal Terrain. The premise itself of reunification of the Korean Peninsula was an interesting one that flowed naturally from the geopolitical and economic situation in place at the end of Fatal Terrain. With many of Brown's usual characters back again, there is a sense of familiarity for the fans of Brown's high-tech military thrillers. The setup for the story was well conceived and certainly held the reader's attention. The only thing holding back a higher rating for Battle Born was the way the conclusion itself unfolded.....seemingly out of proportion to the build-up. The ending seemed to happen all to quickly, leaving the reader with gaps in the resolution of certain characters which, if included, would have made for a more compelling work overall.
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