Arctic Storm Rising

von Dale Brown

576 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

First in a new series from New York Times bestsellingauthor Dale Brown, featuring U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nick Flynn onthe hunt for Russian commandos in the mountains of Alaska.After a CIA covert mission goes badly awry, U.S. Air Forceintelligence officer Nicholas Flynn is exiled to guard a remote radar postalong Alaska’s Arctic frontier. This dead-end assignment is designed to put hiscareer permanently on ice, but Flynn’s not the type to fade quietly intoobscurity...As winter storms pound Alaska and northern Canada, Russianaircraft begin penetrating deep into friendly airspace. Are these rehearsalsfor a possible first strike, using Russia’s new long-range stealth cruisemissiles? Or is some other motive driving the Kremlin to take ever-increasingrisks along the hostile Arctic frontier separating two of the world’s greatpowers?When an American F-22 collides with one of the Russianinterlopers, things go south fast—in seconds, missiles are fired. There are nosurvivors. Despite horrific weather, Flynn and his security team are ordered toparachute into the area in a desperate bid to reach the crash sites ahead ofthe Russians. It’s now obvious that the Pentagon and CIA are withholding vitalinformation, but Flynn and his men have no choice but to make the dangerousjump.Soon they’re caught in a deadly game of hide-and-seek withSpetsnaz commandos operating covertly on American soil. It seems that the F-22sand their Russian counterparts aren’t the first aircraft to have gone missingin these desolate mountains. The Kremlin is hunting for the first prototype ofits new stealth bomber—which vanished on what was supposed to be a testflight…while loaded with nuclear-armed stealth cruise missiles.As Russia and the U.S. square off on the brink ofall-out-war, it’s up to Nick to find the missing bomber…and prevent a potentialnuclear holocaust.

• Themen: Belletristik Erzählerische Themen, Stoffe, Motive Politik
• ISBN: 9780063090101
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.05.2021
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: HarperCollins