Dale Brown Books in Order

A Soviet ground‑based laser suddenly threatens America’s nuclear deterrent, and Washington hesitates. Bomber officer Patrick McLanahan joins a rogue crew flying a radically modified B‑52, the Old Dog, on a one‑way strike deep into enemy territory that becomes a fight simply to get home alive.

In the near future, the US activates Armstrong, a military space station guarding the Persian Gulf. When the Soviet Union moves to invade Iran and plots to destroy the station, General Jason St. Michael and his crew must use space‑based weapons to blunt the assault and keep war from spreading.

At Dreamland, the Air Force tests Dreamstar, a thought‑controlled fighter so advanced it could change air combat forever. When a deep‑cover Soviet agent steals the jet, Patrick McLanahan and his team launch a relentless chase across continents to recover or destroy the aircraft before it reaches enemy hands.

Faced with drug‑running cartels using high‑performance aircraft, the US creates the Border Security Force, a quasi‑military unit led by tough Admiral Ian Hardcastle. Flying gun‑packed patrol planes and helicopters, his people wage a bruising air war against smugglers who are as well‑armed as many nations.

A dispute over the Spratly Islands spirals when a Chinese admiral fires a nuclear‑tipped missile at Philippine forces, triggering a coup and invasion. Patrick McLanahan joins the US Air Battle Force in a desperate campaign of B‑52s, B‑1s, and B‑2s to stop China from seizing the archipelago.

Years after the Old Dog mission, evidence appears that crewman David Luger survived and was forced to work on a stealth bomber in newly independent Lithuania. General Brad Elliott, Patrick McLanahan, and their allies head into a chaotic Baltic war zone to rescue him and steal the aircraft he helped build.

As a nationalist Russian president prepares to invade Ukraine, a US Air Force Reserve F‑111 squadron is rushed into the fight. Veteran pilot Darren Mace and trailblazing combat pilot Rebecca Furness must weld reservists into a real strike force while politics and betrayal swirl around them.

America has no serious air‑defense network when terrorist mastermind Henri Cazaux starts using bomb‑rigged airliners to attack airports. Admiral Ian Hardcastle, now in charge of building a home‑front shield, scrambles to plug the gaps and stop the next wave of hijacked jets before they hit their targets.

A newly aggressive Iran declares the Persian Gulf its territory and sinks an American spy ship to prove it. With a budget‑strained military and reluctant public, the US president turns to Patrick McLanahan and a stealth B‑2 mission to cripple Iran’s new carrier force before full‑scale war erupts.

When Taiwan’s parliament votes for independence and Beijing mobilizes to crush it, Patrick McLanahan and the Old Dog veterans are called back into action. Flying upgraded bombers and new weapons, they confront a massive Chinese fleet in a showdown where not everyone can make it home.

After years overseas, Patrick McLanahan returns to Sacramento and finds his hometown under siege from drug gangs and crooked cops. Using an experimental armored battle suit and non‑lethal weapons, he becomes a one‑man strike force against the city’s worst criminals—at the risk of becoming a target himself.

A starving North Korean pilot’s attempted nuclear strike on Seoul ignites a fast, brutal war on the peninsula. Patrick McLanahan must forge a squadron of Nevada Air Guard B‑1 aviators into an elite air battle force and guide them through a conflict that could easily jump into full nuclear exchange.

A spy scandal puts the Nevada test base nicknamed Dreamland on the chopping block just as a crisis erupts in Somalia. Colonel “Dog” Bastian, his daughter Breanna, and a team of pilots and engineers must prove the value of their Megafortress bombers and drones in a very real combat zone.

Russian billionaire Pavel Kazakov bankrolls a massive oil pipeline through the Balkans and secretly revives a stealth bomber design to protect his interests. Demoted and sidelined, Patrick McLanahan works to expose the threat and, when Moscow moves in, leads a high‑risk countermove using Dreamland‑derived technology.

At Dreamland, Colonel Dog Bastian fights budget cuts by pushing ANTARES, a system that links a pilot’s brain directly to multiple aircraft. When a test pilot plugged into the network begins to lose track of reality, the team faces the nightmare of their own technology turning against them.

US aircraft are being mysteriously shot down over Iraq with no trace of conventional weapons. From their Nevada base, the Dreamland and Whiplash teams deploy experimental planes and special forces to hunt a suspected energy weapon before it triggers a wider war nobody is ready for.

A radical new Libyan regime assassinates Egypt’s president and moves to seize his country’s oil fields with advanced missiles. Patrick McLanahan and his Night Stalkers unit join forces with the late leader’s widow, a former US pilot, to strike back before North Africa slides into all‑out war.

A ragged Taliban force and then a resurgent Russia threaten the small nation of Turkmenistan, and conventional US forces are slow to react. Patrick McLanahan pulls together a new Air Battle Force of bombers, drones, and special‑operations aircraft to hit fast and hard before the region explodes.

Indian and Chinese fleets circle each other in the Pacific, edging toward war. Dreamland seizes the chance to test Piranha, a remote‑operated underwater probe, only to see Breanna Stockard shot down while rescuing civilians. Preventing a clash at sea suddenly becomes as important as proving the new system.

Radar traces from an Asian crisis hint at a terrifying new aircraft nicknamed the “ghost clone,” a robot warplane as agile as Dreamland’s own drones. Dog Bastian’s crews must lure it into the open and capture or destroy it before a rogue nation fields a whole squadron.

While enjoying rare downtime as guests of the sultan of Brunei, Breanna and Jeff “Zen” Stockard are caught in an attempted kidnapping tied to a looming terror campaign. Training local pilots on the EB‑52 Megafortress suddenly turns into a fight to keep a small kingdom from being overrun.

Seeking revenge for earlier humiliations, Russian General Gryzlov orders a surprise nuclear bomber strike on the United States, wiping out much of its land‑based deterrent. Patrick McLanahan and the Dreamland team defy orders and improvise a counterstrike to save what remains of the country.

After a nuclear device devastates a major US energy facility, a shadowy terror group and a powerful corporation emerge as suspects. Major Jason Richter takes command of Task Force Talon, a covert unit with bleeding‑edge weapons, and hunts the conspirators through a maze of politics and deception.

Extremist pirates, backed by a wealthy Saudi terrorist, begin hijacking ships in the Gulf of Aden. Dreamland answers with a futuristic littoral warship packed with automated weapons—dubbed “Satan’s Tail”—and backs it up with Megafortresses and drones when technical glitches and a fanatical enemy raise the stakes.

Violence along the US‑Mexico border spirals as cartels and militants exploit weak points on both sides. Jason Richter’s Task Force Talon is ordered to a new California base, where its advanced sensors, armor, and aircraft must stop a regional breakdown from turning into an international shooting war.

Radical jihadists set their sights on India, threatening to ignite a nuclear confrontation with Pakistan while China circles on the sidelines. From the Nevada desert, Dreamland deploys a revolutionary hybrid destroyer, robot drones, and a risky new weapon code‑named End Game to shut down the terror network in time.

More than two dozen nuclear devices vanish into terrorist hands, and intelligence points toward a coordinated surprise attack on the United States. Short‑staffed and under pressure, Dog Bastian and the Dreamland team must reach deep into their arsenal and stop the plot before any warhead reaches American soil.

Three years after a devastating Russian attack, now–Lieutenant General Patrick McLanahan commands a squadron of spaceplanes capable of striking anywhere on Earth. When an Iranian general launches a rebellion inside his own country, McLanahan takes the XR‑A9 Black Stallions into action—knowing his own president may not approve.

An explosion along a key gas pipeline in Eastern Europe triggers unrest and energy panic across the continent. With NATO and the EU paralyzed, the Dreamland and Whiplash teams chase the shadowy insurgents behind the attacks and race to stop a manufactured crisis from sliding into a new cold war.

A new US president quietly works with Russia to sideline Patrick McLanahan, whose independent operations have become politically inconvenient. As enemies abroad exploit Washington’s infighting, McLanahan and his allies fight to keep their cutting‑edge systems alive and to uncover a scheme that could gut America’s defenses.

Retired from the Air Force, Patrick McLanahan partners with former president Kevin Martindale to run Scion Aviation International, a private military company in Iraq. When Kurdish raids provoke Turkey into unleashing ex‑US aircraft, McLanahan’s pilots are caught between clients, allies, and enemies in a very personal war.

As US and Iranian leaders edge toward a historic peace deal, an Iranian fanatic hiding behind tribal wars in the Horn of Africa builds a network to deliver a nuclear strike. Born from the ashes of Dreamland, the covert Whiplash unit races to find and dismantle his hidden arsenal in time.

A legendary group of assassins known as the Wolves resurfaces with plans to attack a crucial NATO summit. Dreamland and Whiplash scramble to track the killers across Europe, using advanced surveillance and strike aircraft to stop a coordinated strike that could shatter the alliance.

The United States activates Thor’s Hammer, an orbital strike system intended to neutralize rogue missiles. When its first use against hijacked Pakistani rockets triggers chemical releases and a furious international backlash, Patrick McLanahan and General Kai Raydon must head off a wider war fueled by Russia and China.

After a sharp economic collapse, domestic militias and extremist groups begin testing the limits of US law and patience. Flying missions with the Civil Air Patrol and drawing on old Dreamland contacts, Patrick McLanahan organizes citizen‑soldiers to counter a homegrown threat without tearing the country further apart.

A top‑secret unmanned aircraft crashes in Sudan during an off‑the‑books CIA mission, and a dangerous new drone falls into hostile hands. As Danny Freah’s spec‑ops team fights through a brutal African conflict to recover it, Whiplash director Jonathon Reid uncovers a rogue clique inside the Agency itself.

In the chaos after Libya’s revolution, Dreamland’s Whiplash team deploys a sophisticated new unmanned drone to support NATO strikes. A mission gone wrong causes devastating civilian casualties, putting Dreamland’s future and the alliance itself at risk as enemies and politicians move to exploit the tragedy.

China tests an advanced anti‑ship missile system that could push US forces out of the Pacific. President Kenneth Phoenix turns once more to Patrick McLanahan—now twice retired—and to Brad, who is just starting his own path. Their combined air campaign over the South China Sea becomes Patrick’s final, most personal fight.

Intelligence shows Iran is days away from assembling a nuclear weapon, and diplomacy has stalled. Breanna Stockard sends young Air Force ace Turk Mako behind enemy lines to control a swarm of nano‑drones from inside Iran, racing Revolutionary Guards and fighter jets to destroy multiple hidden sites.

Engineer Brad McLanahan leads a team building Starfire, an orbiting solar power station meant to beam clean energy back to Earth. When rival nations and a nervous US president race to militarize the platform, Brad is dragged into a space‑based arms race he helped create.

Russia’s push into Ukraine leaves Poland feeling exposed, so former president Kevin Martindale secretly builds a private strike force of towering combat exosuits—the Iron Wolves. Brad McLanahan must turn their hot‑shot pilots into a disciplined unit before Russian forces crush Eastern Europe.

Muslim extremists in Borneo are found operating a mysterious combat drone built with stolen Dreamland technology. Colonel Danny Freah, Turk Mako, and the Whiplash team chase the trail through jungles and power politics, trying to uncover the real backers before a regional conflict triggers something much bigger.

As Russia opens a new cyberwarfare complex aimed at crippling the Alliance of Free Nations, Brad McLanahan and the Iron Wolf Squadron face a barrage of digital and physical attacks. To keep the alliance alive, they have to outthink hackers and tanks at the same time.

A ruthless Russian president secretly buys a fleet of giant cargo jets and uses them to smuggle combat robots and special forces into the United States. Brad McLanahan and Iron Wolf must uncover the plan and fight a shadow invasion on American soil before the first major strike lands.

Russia unveils a heavily armed space station equipped with a plasma rail gun capable of destroying satellites and threatening cities below. Brad McLanahan, Nadia Rozek, and the Iron Wolf Squadron launch experimental spaceplanes into orbit to knock out the platform before it locks in global dominance.

After earlier defeats, Russia teams up with China to build a secret fortress on the far side of the moon, guarding it with a devastating rail gun. Brad McLanahan and the US Space Force race to mine lunar resources and destroy the base before enemies control space and Earth’s future.

Exiled to a lonely radar post in Alaska, Air Force intelligence officer Nick Flynn expects boredom, not war games with Russian bombers. A mid‑air collision, missing stealth aircraft, and Spetsnaz commandos in the mountains soon have him leading a desperate hunt to prevent a nuclear‑armed bomber from sparking World War III.

Now working for a secretive private intelligence outfit, Nick Flynn meets an Iranian insider who whispers about a joint Russian‑Iranian project called MIDNIGHT. An ambush in the Alps and a covertly refitted supertanker send Flynn and his team racing from Europe to Iran to stop a terrifying new weapon at sea.

Investigating the torture and death of a former CIA executive, Nick Flynn uncovers traces of Russian oligarch Pavel Voronin and his Raven Syndicate. With daring pilot Laura Van Horn, he chases a plot to use stealth aircraft and cartel partners to launch nuclear‑armed drones at US cities from a hidden base.