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Dale Brown (born November 2, 1956) is an American author
most famous for his military-action-aviation techno-thrillers, with
thirteen New York Times best sellers to his
credit.
Brown was born in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from
Penn State University with a degree in
Western European History, and received a commission in the United States Air Force in
1978.
A navigator-bombardier in the G-model B-52
Stratofortress heavy bomber and the FB-111A supersonic medium bomber, he rose
to the rank of captain via automatic promotion. He is the recipient
of several military decorations and awards, including the Air Force
Commendation Medal, the Combat Crew Award, and the Marksmanship
ribbon. He is also a Life Member of the Air
Force Association and the U.S. Naval
Institute. After leaving the Air Force in 1986 he wrote his
first book, Flight of the Old Dog. His novels are
published in eleven languages and distributed to over seventy
countries. Many of his novels fall into the airport novel
genre.
Brown is represented by Madison Avenue literary agent Robert
Gottlieb of Trident Media Group. Gottlieb is best known as the
agent that discovered Tom
Clancy, and who now represents Deepak Chopra, Ralph Peters, James
Wesley Rawles, Neale Donald Walsch and the estate
of Isaac
Asimov.[1]
Brown is a director and volunteer pilot for AirLifeLine, a
non-profit national charitable medical transportation organization
that flies needy persons to receive treatment. He is also a member
of a number of organizations that support and promote reading and
law enforcement.
Brown, his wife Diane, and son Hunter, live near the shores of
Lake Tahoe, Nevada. He enjoys flying his own
private jet, a Grumman Gulfstream II; on the
ground, he enjoys tennis, skiing, scuba diving, and ice hockey.
Bibliography
Note on
Books
Brown tends to stay with the same characters over a long period
of time. The characters introduced in "Flight of the Old Dog", even
though a few are killed here and there, are still around for the
latest. Most of his books occur in the same timeline, with a few
exceptions.
- Silver Tower, published after Flight of the Old
Dog, a mostly independent novel with no character references,
is first linked by mention of the SkyBolt module in Battle
Born. However, the novel is merged into the Patrick McLanahan
saga when some of its main characters and the fictional military space station
Armstrong appear in Strike Force.
- Chains of Command, which features Rebecca Furness and
Darren Mace, was actually a separate series, but later, the
characters re-appeared in Battle Born, and was merged into
the Dreamland and McLanahan series.
- Hammerheads, which features Admiral Ian Hardcastle,
was also a separate series, with McLanahan and other Dreamland
characters mainly doing cameos. Hardcastle later reappeared in
Storming Heaven.
- The Dreamland series co-authored with Jim DeFelice
covers the gaps between the Patrick McLanahan series novels. While
most of the old characters are only mentioned in passing, some of
the technology depicted in the series were later merged into the
main series, starting with Air Battle Force.
- Henri Cazaux, the main villain of Storming Heaven, was
referred to in The Tin Man. His own right-hand man,
Gregory Townsend, would be the book's main antagonist.
As sole
author
Patrick
McLanahan Series
- Flight of the Old Dog (1987)
- The first Dale Brown novel introduces Patrick McLanahan and the
crew of an experimental EB-52 Megafortress bomber as they
attempt to destroy a Soviet anti-ballistic missile laser.
- Night of the Hawk (1992) - Some
members of the Old Dog crew - General Elliott, Patrick McLanahan,
and John Ormack - are recalled to recover an old friend, who has
been discovered alive at a secret facility in
Lithuania.
- Sky Masters (1991) - McLanahan and the heavy bombers of the U.S. Air Battle Force
leads the American counterattack against a Chinese invasion of the Philippines.
- Day of the Cheetah (1989) - Set
eight years after the Flight of the Old Dog, the novel's
plot revolves around a theft of an experimental fighter by a Soviet
deep-cover agent, and the High-Technology Aerospace Weapons
Center's efforts to recover or destroy it.
- Shadows of Steel (1996) - Humiliated by the fiasco
depicted in Day of the Cheetah, Patrick
McLanahan is recalled in May 1997 for a secret B-2 stealth bomber mission over Iran to stop a new Persian Gulf
war.
- Fatal
Terrain (1997) - Set only a few weeks after Shadows of
Steel, Taiwan's
declaration of independence forces China to go to war. The Old Dog
crew is brought back to save the world from Chinese domination, but
not everyone could come home alive.
- The Tin Man (1998) - A few
months after the events of Fatal Terrain, Patrick
McLanahan faces a new enemy, right in his home turf in Sacramento,
California.
- Battle Born (1999) - McLanahan must turn a group of Air Guard
pilots into America's premier tactical air strike force. A new
threat created by a sudden reunification of the Korean peninsula hastens the training.
- Warrior Class (2001) - Russian billionaire Pavel
Kazakov has built a huge pipeline through the Balkans with the support of the
Russian Army and everybody gets rich. And
to those who will not yield, he will order his secret stealth fighter-bomber to destroy them. However, a
new US president and his brand of leadership ties McLanahan's hands
from doing anything about Kazakov.
- Wings of Fire (2002) - When Libya plots to invade and
control Egypt, McLanahan and his advanced force, the Night
Stalkers, are sent in to stop the chaos. However, the
consequences are personal for his family.
- Air
Battle Force (2003) - Patrick McLanahan takes modern aerial
warfare into Turkmenistan to fight a ragtag Taliban army and later
a Russian invasion.
- Plan of Attack (2004) - A
new military leader in Russia orders a nuclear bomber strike into
the United States, eliminating nearly all of its land-based
strategic forces. McLanahan and the rest of the Dreamland crew take
matters into their own hands to save what is left of America.
- Strike Force (2007) - Three years after the events of
Plan of Attack, McLanahan uses new XR-A9 Black Stallion spaceplanes to intervene and change the
course of history in Iran.
- Shadow Command (2008) - Set in 2009, the novel pits
McLanahan and his team against a new US president, Joseph Gardner,
who connives with Russia to take him down.
- Rogue Forces (2009) - Reverting to the career of a
private contractor, Patrick McLanahan and former President Kevin
Martindale operate their own PMC, Scion Aviation
International. Their latest contract: stabilizing Iraq as US forces
withdraw from the country. Events would unfold, however, to force
McLanahan to choose where his loyalty would lie.
Act of War
Series
- Act of War (June 2005; the game Act of War: Direct
Action is based on this book)
- Kingman Group is the largest energy producer in the world, and
when the terrorist group GAMMA managed to nuke the Kingman Texas
facility, US is forced to create a brand-new force to combat
terrorism: Task Force Talon. Using the latest technology such as
wearable exoskeleton/armor, the force made up of cutting-edge
technology and law-enforcement / military hybrid command thought
its tasks were clear: find the terrorists, and eliminate them, no
matter where. However, they did not realize one of their closest
allies may not turn out to be as friendly as they thought...
- Edge of Battle (2006)
- Sequel to Act of War: Violence and tensions along the
U.S.-Mexican border have never been higher, sparked by battles
between rival drug lords and an increased flow of illegal migrants.
To combat the threat, the U.S. has executed Operation Rampart: a
controversial test base in southern California run by Major Jason
Richter and members of Task Force TALON.
Independent
Series
Collaborations
Dale Brown's Dreamland (with Jim DeFelice)
- Dreamland (2001)
- Nerve Center (2002)
- Razor's Edge (2002)
- Piranha (2003)
- Strike Zone (2004)
- Armageddon (2004)
- Satan's Tail (2005)
- End Game (2006)
- Retribution (2007)
- Revolution (October 28, 2008)
- Dreamland: Whiplash (2009)
Tax fraud
In April 2004, Brown pleaded guilty to charges of tax fraud.
Brown was charged with creating companies in the West Indies for
the purposes of receiving tax deductions from fictitious expenses.
The fictitious expenses amounted to more than $440,000, which Brown
claimed on his 1998 income tax filing. He then used the tax
deductions to remodel his home.[2]
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