Kate’s 2¢: “The Kremlin strike” by Dale Brown

“The Kremlin strike” by Dale Brown

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   I liked this story, but it seems as if yesterday’s sci-fi stories are today’s reality.  Is this story prescient?

–Gulags and mass executions were no longer necessary, not in an age when social media could fear at the speed of light. All one needed were carefully planted rumors.

–Originally, the skill builders’ programmers were tasked with conducting Russia’s covert cyber war and computer hacking operation…now they were also to critical defense industries and computer systems against intrusion and sabotage.

— Thunder-bolt plasma gun were nearing operational status.

–Boomer says the definition of acceptable risk, changes when you’re the one taking the risk.

–The spy posed as a free-lance journalist…many not knowing the funding for the magazine came from Moscow.

–Those who saw the world as it really was, were shunted aside and muzzled.

–Even the professionals knew that there were moments when you caught a winning streak  and times, when no of skill, intuition,  and mathematical genius could affect the out-come.

–Patrick walked rather stiffly…the  motor driven LEAF exco-skeleton and attached life-support pack he wore could keep him alive, but they would never make him graceful.

–The lies you told yourself are always more convincing than falsehoods told by others.Even under competent leadership,  humans or human intelligence, the art of recruiting and running agents had never been the strongest suit of of America’s  different intelligence agencies.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Brown was born on November 2, 1956 in Buffalo, New York, and was one of six children. At 15, he began flying instruction, eventually earning a private pilot’s license.[5]

He graduated in 1978 from Penn State University with a degree in Western European history.[5]

   Brown joined the Air Force ROTC while in college.[5] He received a commission in the United States Air Force in 1978. He was a navigator-bombardier (now known as a weapon systems officer (WSO)) in the B-52G Stratofortress long-range heavy bomber and the FB-111A Aardvark medium range fighter-bomber.

Brown received several military decorations and awards, including the Air Force Commendation Medal, the Combat Crew Award, and the Marksmanship ribbon. He rose to the rank of Captain and has 2,500 hours of flight time in B-52s.[5]

He left the Air Force in 1986, having never seen combat.[6] He is a Life Member of the Air Force Association and the U.S. Naval Institute.

   Brown’s first paid writing was a review of Fort Apocalypse for Compute!’s Gazette. In 1986, while still in the Air Force at Mather Air Force Base in Sacramento County, California, he wrote his first book, Flight of the Old Dog.[5] His novels have been published in 11 languages and distributed to over 70 countries. He published 11 bestsellers in 11 years.[7]

Brown has been represented by literary agent Robert Gottlieb of Trident Media Group.[citation needed]

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

The Kremlin strike DB102009

Brown, Dale. Reading time: 13 hours, 20 minutes.

Read by William Dufris.

Spy Stories

The formidable Iron Wolf Squadron learn that the Russian have built a high-tech space station armed with weaponry capable of vast destruction. The team must take to the skies in advanced space planes to destroy the space station and save the world from the Russians’ plan for dominance. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019.

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