Dale Brown in general

Dale Brown has been working in the background of the military fiction section for years. I first came across him when i read Flight of the Old Dog, a fantastic tale based around the super secret military base Dreamland and a new experimental aircraft a heavily modified B-52 nick named the old dog. The characters in this book are described expertly, and the action scenes are totally breath taking. His other books often draw on the characters discovered here people like McLanahan, Elliot, Hal Briggs, Ormack and Luger. The time line of the settings started off a little jumbled bit with his later offerings such as Battle Born that became more ...  Read the complete review

Dale Brown is an American author who's been around a few years now, writing military thrillers of the Tom Clancy type. Surprisingly he's relatively unknown - surprisingly because in my opinion Dale is actually a much better writer than Clancy. His books (including 'Flight of the Old Dog', 'Night of the Hawk', 'Hammerheads' and many others) are set in the same fictional world of the late 80's and the 90's. Whereas Clancy's books are set around one major character, Brown has a whole set of them, all given equal status and development, which gives us a much more realistic picture of his 'world'. The plots ...  Read the complete review