- Paperback: 1 pages
- Publisher: Berkley (MM) (Feb 1 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0425173054
- ISBN-13: 978-0425173053
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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After being lost over Iran, the joint U.S.Russian "Shadow One" stealth bomber has become a major liability as the Iranians, already a nuclear power, begin to dismantel it. Original.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Catch this top-notch action technothriller,
By Randy Colfax (Columbus, OH) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Shadow Down (Paperback)
I just finished reading Shadow Down. I bought the book because I enjoy aviation thrillers and technothrillers. By profession I'm a commercial pilot. Before that I was a Navy fighter jock who put in many hours of combat time in the cockpit of an F/A-18 during the Gulf War. I thought Shadow Down was a real good book. It came on strong, built up speed and momentum in the middle part and finished with a slam-bang conclusion in the final chapters. The book's premise is that the Russians have reverse-engineered or at least copied the American F-117A Stealth fighter and that one of these radar-evading aircraft was downed in Iran by a near-miss from a high-tech SAM and its pilot captured. One of the reasons the Russian stealth was lost, incidentally, was a counter-stealth radar system which I also thought was a nice twist and was portrayed very credibly.The Iranians have now got the plane and are trying some reverse-engineering of their own. The Russians want the aircraft back and plan to send in Spetsnaz, or their special forces commandos, to find the aircraft, rescue the pilot and either destroy or fly it back out. The Americans want to make sure the Russians don't fumble the op, and have their own strategic reasons for wanting the plane out of Iran as fast as possible. A joint operation by U.S. Delta Force and Russian Spetsnaz commandos is assembled. But the Israelis also want to get their hands on the stealth and stage a grab for it using their own specialist troops. After a lot of twists and turns, which make for some outstanding action scenes, the Russian plane is recovered. But the ending had more twists and a number of real surprises and I won't spoil it by giving it away. To sum it all up, Shadow Down's a fast-mover that should be on every action fan's reading list.
5.0 out of 5 stars
ENTERTAINING AVIATION TECHNOTHRILLER,
By Bob Rindge (Chicago) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Shadow Down (Paperback)
I found Shadow Down to be an interesting and entertaining action novel that kept my interest as it went along and built up to an exciting conclusion. The technical side of the book was well-researched, including all of the different aspects about the F117, and I also thought that having Russian Spetsnaz team up with American Delta Force was handled well. I'd recommend this book for anyone interested in escapist military or adventure reading.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Very Disapointing,
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This review is from: Shadow Down (Paperback)
The first half of this book is full of promise, suspense and thrills. Unfortunately, the second half does not deliver. As other reviewers have noted the book had a lot of action. The author wrote his characters out of problems in either overly simplistic ways or by simple ignoring them. Many characters behaved in ways that lacked believability.
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