02/20/2017
The masterly 19th entry in bestseller Brown’s McLanahan series (after 2012’s Tiger Claw) combines geopolitical machinations and advanced computer terrorism. In the near future, under the iron rule of President Gennadiy Gryzlov, Russia targets Poland, temporarily forgoing bullets for bytes with a cyberwarfare campaign waged from a secret facility buried deep in the Ural Mountains. With Poland’s financial and power systems devastated by malware attacks, civilian aircraft wirelessly reprogrammed into deadly missiles, and an untraceable team of assassins lying in ambush, pilot Brad McLanahan and his Scion team, based in Eastern Europe, must utilize every gadget at their disposal to find and destroy the underground lair. Since the NATO alliance has fallen apart, thanks to the U.S. president’s ineptitude, the Poles have only the Baltic states and other small countries in the region to help them. The smoke barely clears from the explosive climactic battle before Brown, a founding father of the military techno-thriller genre, ups the stakes for the inevitable sequel. Agent: Robert Gottlieb, Trident Media Group. (May)
Price of Duty: A Novel
Narrated by MacLeod Andrews
Dale BrownUnabridged — 14 hours, 19 minutes
Price of Duty: A Novel
Narrated by MacLeod Andrews
Dale BrownUnabridged — 14 hours, 19 minutes
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Overview
In New York Times bestselling author Dale Brown's Price of Duty, the stakes are high as the U.S. and its Western allies come under a diabolical Russian cyberwarfare attack
In a top-secret location deep in the Ural Mountains, Russian President Gennadiy Gryzlov has built his nation's most dangerous weapon since the atomic bomb-an intricate network of underground tunnels and chambers designed to launch a carefully plotted series of attacks on an unsuspecting U.S. and its European allies.
The first strike targets Warsaw, Poland, where Russian malware wipes out the records of nearly every Polish bank account, panicking the rest of Europe. When the besieged U.S. president, Stacy Anne Barbeau, fails to effectively combat the Russian threat, Brad McLanahan, on some well-earned R&R with his new Polish girlfriend, Major Nadia Rozek, is called back to duty.
As the Russians' deadly tactics escalate-including full-scale assaults on Europe's power grid and the remote hijacking of a commercial airliner that kills hundreds of civilians-McLanahan and his Scion team kick into gear. With the world's fate hanging in the balance, will Scion succeed in turning back Gryzlov before he can realize his terrifying ambition to conquer the globe?
Editorial Reviews
A tense, atmospheric thriller with a ripped from the headlines plot, PRICE OF DUTY moves at a breakneck pace. Highly readable, enormously entertaining, its twists and turns will keep you glued to the pages.” — Karen Robards, New York Times Bestselling author
“A riveting powerhouse of a novel; action on top of action, fascinating and intricate details about the latest military technology and tactics and a forward-thinking geopolitical plot that yanks the reader along by the collar and takes them on a wild ride. Exciting and intelligent entertainment.” — Mark Greaney, #1 Bestselling Author of Gunmetal Gray
“Strap in, for there are shootouts on every page plus a well-choreographed climactic raid. ... A compelling, fast-paced, and imaginative techno-thriller. ... There’s so much action here it’s a wonder there aren’t bullet holes and bomb craters on every page.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Masterly. ... Explosive.” — Publishers Weekly
“Fans will find Brown in fine form here, and newcomers who enjoy top-notch military fiction will have no trouble diving into the deep end.” — Booklist
“All too real and eerily authentic. One of the godfathers of techno-thrillers, Brown has saved some of his best and most creative story ideas for [Price of Duty].” — The REAL Book Spy
Praise for Dale Brown: “The best military adventure writer in the country today.” — Clive Cussler
“A superb storyteller.” — W.E.B. Griffin
All too real and eerily authentic. One of the godfathers of techno-thrillers, Brown has saved some of his best and most creative story ideas for [Price of Duty].
A superb storyteller.
A tense, atmospheric thriller with a ripped from the headlines plot, PRICE OF DUTY moves at a breakneck pace. Highly readable, enormously entertaining, its twists and turns will keep you glued to the pages.
A riveting powerhouse of a novel; action on top of action, fascinating and intricate details about the latest military technology and tactics and a forward-thinking geopolitical plot that yanks the reader along by the collar and takes them on a wild ride. Exciting and intelligent entertainment.
Fans will find Brown in fine form here, and newcomers who enjoy top-notch military fiction will have no trouble diving into the deep end.
Praise for Dale Brown: “The best military adventure writer in the country today.
Fans will find Brown in fine form here, and newcomers who enjoy top-notch military fiction will have no trouble diving into the deep end.
A superb storyteller.
2017-03-21
Brown (Iron Wolf, 2015, etc.) once again deploys futuristic Cybernetic Infantry Devices to keep Mother Russia from re-establishing hegemony over Poland and the Baltic nations.Those countries are still recovering from a Russian false flag attack. Now Russian President Gennadiy Gryzlov has launched Operation Plague, all-out cyberwarfare. From a buried fortress called Perun's Aerie deep inside Mount Manaraga in the Nether-Polar Urals, an atomic-powered supercomputer sends a Romanian nuclear power reactor into near meltdown and then shuts down Poland's financial system and electrical grid. U.S. President Stacy Anne Barbeau is out of her depth. Only her exiled mortal enemy, former U.S. President Kevin Martindale, and Scion, his private military-contractor company, can combat the attack. That requires not only CIDs—"a human-piloted combat robot"—from the Iron Wolfe Squadron, but also Scion's never-deployed XCV-62 stealth air freighter. The mercenaries also need Scion's pilot Brad McLanahan's multifaceted combat skills and Polish Special Forces Maj. Nadia Rozek's expertise. Strap in, for there are shootouts on every page plus a well-choreographed climactic raid on Perun's Aerie's computers. By then Scion has solved the matter of corrupting an airliner's flight software to lure Piotr Wilk, Poland's heroic president, into an assassination ambush. The characters are static and one-dimensional, including the thoroughly contemptible and morally bereft Gryzlov; the dialogue has the necessary quotient of manly banter; and the settings are cinematic. Literary flaws there may be, but Brown deserves kudos for contriving a compelling, fast-paced, and imaginative techno-thriller from a conflict where most foot soldiers are wizards at typing computer code. There's so much action here it's a wonder there aren't bullet holes and bomb craters on every page.
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940169935943 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Brilliance Audio |
| Publication date: | 05/16/2017 |
| Series: | Patrick McLanahan Series , #21 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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