Blackbird: A Novel - Hardcover

Merek, Jack

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ISBN 10: 0809241609 ISBN 13: 9780809241606

Publisher: Contemporary Books, 1990

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When a key U.S. spy satellite is knocked out, General Scott Cartwright is ordered to fly a secret mission in the recently retired SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft, to gather information for the president about a crisis breaking in the Middle East

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Two parts Rambo, one part SR-71 public relations, Blackbird is a bubbly cocktail of adventurous derring-do without much nutritive value. General Scott Cartwright, former astronaut, must fly the Air Force's swift and beautiful reconnaissance plane--SR-71--on one more mission after an essential spy satellite is disabled over the Middle East. The ensuing complications involve a Jewish pilot and his Israeli lover, the requisite evil CIA director, spies and counterspies, chemical warfare, and nuclear blackmail. Merek is a member of the cram-it-all-in school of plotting: comrades fortuitously find one another in the midst of battle on foreign territory, where the good guys escape from dungeon after dungeon, and where mission-critical information is always available just in the nick of time. Skippable.
- Elsa Pendleton, Boeing Computer Support Svces., Ridgecrest, Cal.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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