Piranha (Dale Brown's Dreamland) - Softcover

Brown, Dale; Defelice, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 051513581X ISBN 13: 9780515135817

Publisher: Jove, 2003

Synopsis

Dreamland - a place where the nation's most brilliant minds converge to create cutting-edge artillery and aircraft technology - must use their new remote-operated underwater probe called the Piranha to monitor the escalating tensions between the Indian and Chinese navies. Original.

About this title

About the Author:

Dale Brown is the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers, starting with Flight of the Old Dog in 1987. A former U.S. Air Force captain he can often be found flying his own plane over the skies of Nevada.

From Publishers Weekly:

This brisk, if conventional, entry in Brown and DeFelice's jargon-filled series of military thrillers (Dale Brown's Dreamland: Nerve Center, etc.) takes a team of high-tech pilots from Dreamland, an aerospace weapons-testing facility, to sea. Piranha, an underwater robot capable of surveillance and attack, opens its career by outmaneuvering a Naval carrier. It quickly graduates from the testing phase, however, when a crisis in the China sea erupts and a Dreamland team-including Col. Dog Bastian, his daughter Capt. Breanna Stockard and her husband, wheelchair-bound Zen Stockard-is assigned to keep an eye on the goings-on between India and China. The simple mission heats up when the Dreamlanders get into a fray with the Chinese, who are anxious to test some secret machinery of their own. The authors describe each advanced weapon in such detail that readers, had they the tools, could conceivably build their own arsenal. Though these details bog down the narrative at times, the story thankfully slams into overdrive midway through. All in all, the book's overwhelming number of acronyms may discourage new readers, but fans of the series should have no complaints.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Jove
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 051513581X
• ISBN 13: 9780515135817
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 377