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Summary: The only Wingman novel I ever read
Review: Hawk Hunter was once a captain in the United States Air Force when the Soviet Union attacked and created a radioactive wasteland from Oklahoma to the Dakotas called the Wasteland. After World War III ended with an unjust peace treaty signed by a traitorous vice president, the Soviet Union splits the country in two creating the Circle in the east. The West Coast becomes Pacific Amermica. Hawk Hunter's now an officer in the Pacific American Air Force. As the book opens, two mercenary pilots from an outfit called the Ace Wrecking Crew, one of whom is named Elvis, find a man tied up in the hot sun of the Azores, the site of a former American base, and he's left to die by two of Lucifer's henchmen. Hunter then heads to Casablanca, a city built on a movie set. He meets with an arms smuggler named Lord Lard. He also meets another man who says he's joining the fight against Lucifer. Lucifer had put a price on Hunter's head and eveyone in this new world is out to collect the reward. Hunter soon meets the British members of the Gibralter Defense Force, former RAF pilots who tell him that World War III never really ended. The book reaches its climax when Hunter and Lucifer confront each other in the Rhub-al-Khali. Huter wants to bring Lucifer, whose real name is Viktor Robotov, a Soviet agent who created the Circle and started the Circle War. Hunter wants to bring Viktor back to the United States to stand trial as a war criminal but he's killed by Nazis. Elvis and his partner call him. He asks about the people from the carrier that they'd salvaged to stop Lucifer from breaking out into the Mediterranean. They say they didn't survive.
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Summary: A great book for everyone
Review: Hey, i read The Lucifer Crusade 3 years ago. I began reading it and was immedietally captivated by Mack Maloneys great writing style. He takes things and puts them into situations which you will never expect. Then when i finished the book, i stoped reading the Wingman series. Last year or so, i came upon the book and decided to buy the first few. After reading the first 2 books and then The Lucifer Crusade again, i was able to further understand the book. I loved it even more. Now i am continuing to read the series. Still however, so far i think that the Lucifer Crusade is easily one of the best if not the best wingman book. I would HIGHLY reccomend it to anyone interested in reading about cool airplanes, awesome battles which last for pages and pages, and hot love scenes. This book had everything. As you see, i give it 5 stars (although it deserves 100). If you are feeling like taking a chance, get messy, grab the Lucifer Crusade and have the best time of your life reading. I hope this helps you find what you are looking for.
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Summary: A great book for everyone
Review: Hey, i read The Lucifer Crusade 3 years ago. I began reading it and was immedietally captivated by Mack Maloneys great writing style. He takes things and puts them into situations which you will never expect. Then when i finished the book, i stoped reading the Wingman series. Last year or so, i came upon the book and decided to buy the first few. After reading the first 2 books and then The Lucifer Crusade again, i was able to further understand the book. I loved it even more. Now i am continuing to read the series. Still however, so far i think that the Lucifer Crusade is easily one of the best if not the best wingman book. I would HIGHLY reccomend it to anyone interested in reading about cool airplanes, awesome battles which last for pages and pages, and hot love scenes. This book had everything. As you see, i give it 5 stars (although it deserves 100). If you are feeling like taking a chance, get messy, grab the Lucifer Crusade and have the best time of your life reading. I hope this helps you find what you are looking for.
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Summary: Action Packed
Review: I liked the book a lot. I've only read four of the series, but I'm hooked on them anyway. If you like action packed novels that leave you wanting to find out what will happen next, then read this book. It will make you mad, glad, and leave you satisfied. A great book.
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Summary: Lots of action and intrigue
Review: This is the third book in the Wingman series and it is right up there with the best of them. Lots of flying, lots of action, weirdness, sex, ghosts ... you name it. I realized about halfway through that this book, in a way, prophesized the Persian Gulf War. (It was written about a year before.) A lot of fun and awelcome change from more stuffy books of the action-adventure genre.
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Summary: Lots of action and intrigue
Review: This was the first and only "Wingman" book I've ever read, a sort of straight, pulp techno-thriller series set in the aftermath of WWIII. (The US is still picking itself up after narrowly surviving an overwhelming Soviet attack; colluding politicians undermine the bare victory while the nation's splintering into numerous, autonomous zones further prevent it from taking action; global disintegration allows the rise of numerous freemens' armies and an every-man-for-himself mentality). Hawk Hunter was one of the US's most gifted fighter pilots prior to the war, and of course its only chance for survival in its aftermath. Flying the only known remaining F-16 fighter, and hitched up to the Pacific American Air Force (who largely fly lesser planes like the F-4 and the Tigershark) Hunter remains the only pilot capable of beating back America's enemies. In this episode (I mean, this book), Hunter flies to North Africa on the trail of the evil Viktor Robotov, a Soviet madman largely responsible for defiling both Hawk's nation and his girlfriend. Leaving Casablanca, Hawk links up with a group of British adventurers, self-styled modern knights in a crusade against a shadowy warlord known as Lucifer. All of North Africa seems desperate to get out of the way as Lucifer amasses a huge army to conquer that part of the world. Hawk quickly realizes that the feared Lucifer is actually Robotov in disguise, but that his army and his threats are very real. Against that, the modern knights claim the intact, if powerless derelict of an American aircraft carrier, planning to tow it across the Mediterranean to become a floating airbase from which to fly against Lucifer at the mouth of the Suez in what promises to be an epic battle....
...that never comes off. Because I enjoyed "War Heaven" I thought I could also like at least one of the "Wingman" books, but this one spoiled me for the whole series. None of the action has that "you are there" quality - and even when describing action occurring right then, the book sounds like it's talking about something that happened last week. The characters walk around like bloodless robots. The evil Robotov, when we finally meet him here, is the biggest cheat of all - just a moron in a dark robe ala Darth Sidious, the sort of dumb jerk who blames other people for his own mistakes and has to shout everything - why not make him Hawk's father while we're at it. Then there are the military details and the action - the techno details are pretty thin and the air combat not quite thrilling. Let's face it, even if you didn't pick up this book for its hardcore military/techno-realism, you'll still be left hungry. Other technothrillers are out there with less implausible plots (not involving post WWIII war torn lands ala "Red Dawn") with more accurate detail, so why buy any of these books?
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Summary: Lame techno-adventure
Review: This was the first and only "Wingman" book I've ever read, a sort of straight, pulp techno-thriller series set in the aftermath of WWIII. (The US is still picking itself up after narrowly surviving an overwhelming Soviet attack; colluding politicians undermine the bare victory while the nation's splintering into numerous, autonomous zones further prevent it from taking action; global disintegration allows the rise of numerous freemens' armies and an every-man-for-himself mentality). Hawk Hunter was one of the US's most gifted fighter pilots prior to the war, and of course its only chance for survival in its aftermath. Flying the only known remaining F-16 fighter, and hitched up to the Pacific American Air Force (who largely fly lesser planes like the F-4 and the Tigershark) Hunter remains the only pilot capable of beating back America's enemies. In this episode (I mean, this book), Hunter flies to North Africa on the trail of the evil Viktor Robotov, a Soviet madman largely responsible for defiling both Hawk's nation and his girlfriend. Leaving Casablanca, Hawk links up with a group of British adventurers, self-styled modern knights in a crusade against a shadowy warlord known as Lucifer. All of North Africa seems desperate to get out of the way as Lucifer amasses a huge army to conquer that part of the world. Hawk quickly realizes that the feared Lucifer is actually Robotov in disguise, but that his army and his threats are very real. Against that, the modern knights claim the intact, if powerless derelict of an American aircraft carrier, planning to tow it across the Mediterranean to become a floating airbase from which to fly against Lucifer at the mouth of the Suez in what promises to be an epic battle.......that never comes off. Because I enjoyed "War Heaven" I thought I could also like at least one of the "Wingman" books, but this one spoiled me for the whole series. None of the characters are any fun - even though called the "Wingman" Hunter flies and does just about everything himself, and the rest of the characters walk around like bloodless robots. The evil Robotov, when we finally meet him here, is the biggest cheat of all - just a moron in a dark robe ala Darth Sidious, the sort of dumb jerk who blames other people for his own mistakes and has to shout everything. Then there are the military details and the action - the techno details are pretty thin and the air combat not quite thrilling. Maloney details the action as if it's already happened and this is just the post-game show. Other technothrillers are out there with less impluasible plots (not involving post WWIII war torn lands ala "Red Dawn") with more accurate detail, so why buy any of these books?
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