花豹的日子Day of the Cheetah
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作者： Dale Brown 著
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出版时间： 1990-6-1字数：版次： 1页数： 502印刷时间： 1990/06/01开本： 32开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 071831007995包装： 平装编辑推荐
作者简介：
Dale Brown, a former U.S. Air Force captain, is the author of Flight of the Old Dog, Day of the Cheetah,Chains of Command, and many other bestsellers.Brown lives in Nevada, where he often can be found in the skies, piloting his own plane.
内容简介
Brown's third technothriller is based on a premise successfully developed a decade ago in Clive Thomas's Firefox : the theft of an advanced-design fighter. This time the year is 1996; the fighter is America's X-34 Dreamstar; and its secret is ANTARES: the interfacing of the pilot's nervous system and the aircraft's computer. The plane's hijack by its pilot, a KGB mole, sets the stage for a fast-moving spectrum of diplomatic and military measures to recover or destroy the prize without starting a world war. Ultimately the task falls to the Cheetah--an F-15 with its own updated avionics, but an "older, less intelligent cousin" of Dreamstar. Brown's action scenes are vivid; his descriptions of contemporary technology accurate; his projections into the near future of aircraft design convincing; and his characterization of the growing internal conflict in the mole has weight and substance. Among the book's flaws, however, is Brown's decision to depend heavily on characters first presented in Flight of the Old Dog , so that he frequently disrupts the narrative with references to the earlier mission. More seriously for a work of this genre, Brown seems at times almost bored with the fighter technology he is describing. Despite its drawbacks, however, this novel should be a strong contender in the summer's technothriller sweepstakes. $125,000 ad/promo; paperback rights to Berkley; BOMC featured selection; author tour.
