Patrick McLanahan Books in Order

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.