From Booklist The new Patrick McLanahan miltary thriller pits the U.S. Air Force lieutenant-general against his archenemy, Russian air force chief of staff General Andrei Darzov. At stake is military supremacy in earth’s orbit and, by extension, supremacy over earth itself. Brown’s fans have come to expect certain things from his novels, and he delivers them here with gusto: larger-than-life characters; a high-tech story; narrative passages full of (a cynic might say clogged with) military terminology; precise technical descriptions of hardware, such as aircraft and weaponry; and a pace that allows readers very little time to consider just how implausible the story actually is. Readers who are shopping around for elegant prose and graceful plotting might want to keep on looking, but fans of high-testosterone military techno-thrillers (like those of Tom Clancy, Stephen Coonts, or Patrick Robinson) will be well pleased. --David Pitt