Shadow Flight - Softcover

Weber, Joe

3.81

281 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0586213767 ISBN 13: 9780586213766

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1992

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

From the best-selling author of DEFCON One comes an explosive new thriller.

While Congress debates the merits of continued funding for the Stealth bomber, sinister forces have their own goals in mind. During a training exercise, a B-2 bomber disappears.

When search efforts produce no evidence the bomber crashed, the US Air Force has no choice but to acknowledge that one of its most secret and high-tech aircraft has been hijacked.

Recovery of the B-2 and its crew becomes the president’s highest priority. The Kremlin claims no knowledge of the missing aircraft.

Finally, intelligence leads to what would first seem to be a very unlikely suspect: Cuba. But could the tiny nation pull off a theft of this magnitude? And what might its plans be for the highly sought-after aircraft? Getting the answers to these questions becomes the top-secret mission for CIA agent Steve Wickham. For without those answers, only one solution will remain: invasion. And if the US invades, World War III will certainly follow.

Can Wickham find the answers and the bomber before the president is forced to invade? Or will the world as we know it ignite into a nuclear conflagration?

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

AUTHOR BIO - JOE WEBER Author of: Defcon One, Shadow Flight, Rules of Engagement, Targets of Opportunity, Honorable Enemies, Primary Target

Joe Weber was born on February 9, 1945 in Enid, Oklahoma. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1970-1975. His first novel was published in 1989. He lives near Pensacola, Florida, with his wife of 23 years, and their dogs, Duke and Duchess.

Mr. Weber has a Master of Science Degree in Aviation Management. He holds an Airline Transport Pilot rating, and has over 10,500 hours of flight time in 43 different types of aircraft, ranging from aerobatic biplanes to four engine transports. He is a carrier-qualified fighter/attack trained pilot who graduated from advanced Naval jet pilot training in Kingsville, Texas, in 1972. After his release from active duty, Mr. Weber flew commercially until 1989.

He is the author of five novels with his sixth, Primary Target, scheduled for release from Berkley Publishing in December, 1999. Millions of Mr. Webers books are in print, and all of his books are available on audio cassette. Mr. Webers books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Polish, Russian and Italian for sales in foreign countries, and they have appeared on the bestseller lists of The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, The Associated Press, and The Chicago Tribune.

He is currently working on his seventh novel.

Review:

Glasnost and perestroika have been unsuccessful and the Soviet economy is reeling under the weight of its failed ideology. The KGB chief,...decides on a daring plan to seize America's most threatening new weapon.

Months later, on a routine training flight, a B-2 Stealth bomber...is hijacked by a civilian weapons technician turned traitor. At gunpoint, the pilots are forced to fly to Cuba -- a flight that, due to the radar-resistant properties of the aircraft, is untraceable.

As the superpowers waltz arm-in-arm in a deadly dance of nuclear brinkmanship, only one man (Steve Wickham) can save the plane and its crew -- and avert a global confrontation. Joe Weber, author of last year's sleeper, "Defcon One, returns with another brisk thriller. A sweeping story old with ringing prose and peppered with nail-biting shoot-outs, escapes, and military maneuvers, this novel is as action-packed as a high-tech aerial dogfight. "Shadow Flight" is techno-thriller action at its very best! -- Rave Reviews, August 1991

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.