Warrior Class
Fiction
By Dale Brown
Reviewed by Max A.
5 out of 5 stars
After the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Balkans became a battleground for rebels, NATO and Russian peacekeepers. The new American president, Thomas Thorn, wants to remove all U.S. forces from foreign soil including Italy, England, Japan, Germany and the Balkan states. A Russian drug lord turned oil baron, Pavel Kazakov, sees this as his opportunity to take over the Balkans in order to run an oil pipeline from the Black Sea, enabling his company to compete in western markets. He meets an aerospace engineer at his father’s funeral after he was killed on peacekeeping duties in Kosovo that has the first Russian Stealth airplane, enabling his highly paid test pilots to attack rebel strong points with impunity. The one card in Thorn’s hand is the pilots and planes of the 111th Bombardment Wing of the Nevada Air National Guard that are under the control of General Patrick McLanahan, vice commander of the High Technology Aerospace Weapons Center in Nevada.. Their B-1B swept wing, supersonic, strategic bombers had been specially modified to carry air-to-air missiles and super accurate long range air to ground missiles that transformed the B-1B into the EB-1C Megafortress. A CIA operation spying operation that is gathering information on Kazkovs facility goes horribly wrong and the Megafortresses took to the skies over Russia to help rescue the agent. Can they keep the rescue helicopter from the air defenses of the Russia-Ukraine border? Will the commandeered stealth fighter knock the EB-1C from the night skies? Who will protect the Balkan region after the U.S. abandons NATO?
Dale Brown wrote an excellent story with Warrior Class. The book is from a series of more than 15 books, so you have to read the whole series to understand the characters and the intertwined plots of the books. Foreshadowing and explaining separate parts of the plot are two of the many ways Dale Brown writes an excellent story. If you think you want to read this amazing story, I recommend reading the series from the start.
