Military thrillers

Vokes

does anyone read them? whos your favourite authors?
im currently reading Nimitz Class(excellent book!) by Patrick Robinson

Manach

My all time favourite in Military Fiction would be Red storm Rising by Tom Clancy, but's dated & his only good war-book.
The best authors seem to be ex-US military, and there attitude seems jingoistic, but does not detrach too much from their books.
I'd recommend (set in late 20th/early 21st century)
Larry Bond - Couldron (US vs Europe)
Harold Coyle - The Ten Thousand (US vs Germany)
Stephen Coonts - Fortunes of War (US vs Japan)

For a non-Fiction study of the Military, the best modern writer would be John Keegan.

Victor

I've read quite a few of them. Of course Dale Brown all but predicted the WTC attacks.

Vokes

thanks for the recommendations manach, ill check them out!

ive read Dale Brown's Battle Born and Silver Tower but which book features WTC attacks???

Victor

Originally posted by SofaKing
thanks for the recommendations manach, ill check them out!

ive read Dale Brown's Battle Born and Silver Tower but which book features WTC attacks???

No he didn't actually predict the WTC attacks. But what he did do was expose the lack of airport security and the ability to fly commercial aircraft into targets of value (or drop bombs out the back of some of them). Can't remember the name, i think i have it at home. Will look.

Dale Brown's website: http://www.megafortress.com/ All his books are at http://www.megafortress.com/index03.htm . The book is Stroming Heaven. List Price: $7.99.

Review from Amazon.com :

Editorial Reviews
From Kirkus Reviews
Even the most ardent pacifists may run for their guns after considering the ease with which America's cities are terrorized in the latest by Air Force veteran Brown (Chains of Command, 1993, etc.). Admiral Ian Hardcastle tirelessly warns Americans of their vulnerability to terrorist attacks in the illusory calm of the postCold War climate. His extreme warnings prove justified when Henri Cazaux, who was once tortured and sodomized by American soldiers stationed in his native Belgium, gets hold of an airplane and uses it to drop a large amount of explosives on Los Angeles International Airport, wreaking death and destruction after a thrilling chase by F-16 fighter jets. This incineration is so easy that he targets more airports around the country, enlisting (i.e., coercing) into his service his investment banker, his Colombian and British advisers, and numerous mercenaries, all of whom would die for Cazaux, not out of loyalty but out of fear of death at his hand should they fail. A multidepartmental task force assembles in Washington, but that damn Democratic administration just won't listen to military men like Hardcastle, learning its lesson only when Cazaux's master plan--an air/surface assault on Washington, DC--threatens our most treasured national monuments. Brown has mastered this genre, as seen in the riveting plane chases and the ease and humor with which he vents his own political frustrations: His parody of Bill and Hillary Clinton will amuse all partisans, but his contempt for modern women, placed here in positions of power but too incompetent to be of use, achieves misogyny with Cazaux's rape of his psychic, whose incredible response makes a mockery of real violence against women. Super chase scenes that don't let up until the planes run out of fuel or blow up, and a perfect villain who refuses to be exterminated until the last page. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.