Air Battle Force

By: Dale Brown

Narrated by: William Dufris

On America's newest combat base, U.S. Air Force aerial warfare expert Major General Patrick McLanahan and his crew of daring engineers are devising the air combat unit of the future. Known as Air Battle Force, it can launch concentrated, stealthy, precision-guided firepower to any spot on the globe within hours. And soon McLanahan and his warriors will have their first target.

Chased out of Afghanistan, Taliban fighters are planning to invade the neighboring oil-rich Republic of Turkmenistan, an isolated and wealthy central Asian state. As alliances form and forces collide, the impending battle for control of the world's largest oil deposits threatens to tear apart the tenuous peace created by America's victories in Afghanistan. It's up to McLanahan and a handful of American commandos half a world away, aided by an untested and unproven force of robotic warplanes, to win a war in which everyone -- even ""friendly"" forces at home -- wants them to fail.

Performed by David McCallum.

©2003 Dale Brown; (P)2003 HarperCollinsPublishers, Inc.

Good Book

It is a good book to show the United States military might, political, calm against Russia, and crushing strength to accomplish the mission.

Spellbinding

Keeps you at the edge of your seat. Makes you want these aircraft and want to fly them yourself. In the long version, there are times that it drags. But the characters have enough other stuff going on that it is OK. You cannot have action every minute of a 14 hour book! The action here is great though.

Very slow and a lot of narration

The story is 90% nothing and 10% action.
When it started being interesting, it seems the author just wanted to ended at any cost, like someone who had enough.
Very disappointing

ABF

Awesome book, okay narrarator. He sounds like an idiot when he does the Rebecca's voice. Overall, awesome.

great military novel

I enjoyed a lot. Specially the realism of the scenes inside the fighter and bombers.