Download or read book HABU PATCH written by David Alexander and published by Triumvirate Digital Publications. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A veteran pilot. A legendary spy plane. A global crisis. All of these combine to make Habu Patch an unforgettable thriller. Habu Patch by David Alexander No one has written a technothriller about the legendary SR-71 Blackbird quite this powerful or half this good. Habu Patch is raw-edged excitement ... David Alexander makes the SR-71 stand on its tail and do tricks when danger rides the skies over Russian airspace as a last-ditch military action takes place below. The sky's no limit for this mega-thriller from one of the top authors in the field. The stakes have never been higher. Catch this plane if you can. Habu Patch ... A breathtaking achievement by author David Alexander featuring high-adrenaline excitement from cover to cover. Acclaim for Habu Patch "Action on steroids! Adventure on Viagra. Simply put ... a masterpiece of a must-read!" -- The Wall Street Journal "What a story! Habu Patch has locked it down ... pure dynamite!" -- Metro New York "Draws first blood on every page ... read this one only if you've got enough nerve to take on the deadliest pilots in the sky..." -- St. Paul Intelligencer "David Alexander milks the SR-71 for every last burning drop of all-fire action, gripping drama and high excitement, in this slam-bang tale of heroism, intrigue and aerial derring-do. The flight scenes featuring the legendary Habu of the book's title reveal a knowledge of the aircraft that few other authors, experts and even pilots themselves, can match. Some of the flight scenes are absolutely incredible. Habu Patch is one action thriller you won't want to miss." -- Kirkus Reviews "...An addictive reading experience ... yet another solid achievement in storytelling from one of thrillerdom's top-ranked authors." -- South London Press "One helluva novel!" -- New York Post "David Alexander might well boast of stories ripped from today's headlines ... other authors might justly boast of stories ripped from David Alexander ... his is a unique talent." -- Playboy
Download or read book SR 71 Revealed The Untold Story written by Richard H. Graham and published by . This book was released on with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put your pressure suit on and strap yourself in for a Mach 3 ride! Former SR-71 Wing Commander Rich Graham tells the amazing inside story of the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. Graham provides a detailed look at the entire SR-71 story beginning with his application to be an SR pilot through commanding an entire wing.
Download or read book SR 71 written by Richard H. Graham and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2013-05-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history of the reconnaissance plane, discussing its development, manufacture, and active service from an insider prespective.
Download or read book Flying the SR 71 Blackbird written by Richard H. Graham and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2008-07-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone who has ever wondered what its like to fly the SR-71 on a secret Mach 3 reconnaissance mission, this book has the answer. Flying the SR-71 Blackbird takes readers along on an operational mission that only a few Air Force pilots have ever experienced. The Lockheed SR-71, unofficially known as the Blackbird, was an advanced, long-range, Mach 3 strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed by Lockheed Skunk Works. The aircraft flew so fast and high that not one was ever shot down, even by a missile. SR-71 pilot and instructor Colonel Richard Graham offers a rare cockpit perspective on how regular Air Force pilots and navigators transformed themselves into SR-71 Blackbird crews, turning their unique aviation talents to account in an unprecedented way. Arguably the worlds foremost expert on piloting the Blackbird, Graham details, as no one else could, what an SR-71 mission entails, from donning a pressure suit to returning to base.
Download or read book Habu Patch written by David Alexander and published by Triumvirate Publications. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HABU PATCH... Catch this plane if you can. HABU PATCH... Danger rides the skies over Russian airspace as a last-ditch military action takes place below. The stakes have never been higher. HABU PATCH... No one has written a technothriller about the legendary SR-71 Blackbird quite this powerful or half this good. HABU PATCH... Habu Patch is raw-edged excitement ... David Alexander makes the SR-71 stand on its tail and do tricks. HABU PATCH... A breathtaking achievement by author David Alexander featuring high-adrenaline excitement from cover to cover. HABU PATCH... The sky's no limit for this mega-thriller from one of the top authors in the field.
Download or read book Under Attack written by David Alexander and published by Triumvirate Publications. This book was released on 2023-08-17 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Under Attack David Alexander tells the story of the next phase of the continuing war against international terrorist forces. As the book opens, the successors to Al Qaeda are planning a bold new series of terrorist strikes against high-priority military, civilian, government and commercial targets around the world. Under Attack is not only an unforgettable page-turner ... it is also a warning of what might happen tomorrow if America grows careless again. David Alexander -- dubbed "the best damn action writer in the business" -- has a gift for extrapolating tomorrow's history from today's events. As the book opens, the successors to Al Qaeda are planning a bold new series of terrorist strikes against high-priority military, civilian, government and commercial targets around the world. The keystone and culminating event of these phased attacks is to be Strike Day, when an attack on the United States, on U.S. military forces abroad, and on one of America's chief Middle Eastern allies, is planned to strike a hammerblow against the edifice of American global power that will send the U.S. sliding into chaos. Against a backdrop of NATO regional warfare on the Arabian littoral to attack terrorist strongholds before these devastating attacks will occur, an elite U.S. special forces detachment, brought into being by secret presidential finding, spearheads the assault on the center of enemy power. On Strike Day its commander will find himself virtually alone against the surprise attack on America that, if successful, will make both Pearl Harbor and September 11th pale by comparison. Under Attack will not only entertain ... it will inform and it will challenge. And it will be a book few will be able to put down after the first sentence has been read.
Download or read book David Alexander written by David Alexander and published by Triumvirate Publications. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Question: When is a book like an assault weapon? Answer: When a master of global action thrillers has his finger on the trigger. Internationally renowned David Alexander is that author. Known for scenes rich in drama, vivid dialog and surprising twists and turns of plot that defy prediction, bestselling author David Alexander has risen to the pinnacle of success with thrillers that USA Today has called "Among the finest ever to appear in print" and the New York Times has heralded as "Modern fiction masterpieces." Dubbed "King of Action-Adventure" and "Master of Intrigue," author David Alexander has created a high-velocity narrative style that is strikingly unique. Time and again, readers have been stunned by the uncanny sense that this author, under the guise of fiction, has written about events that have actually taken place. Could such sometimes unbelievably far-out plot developments have been drawn from real life? Could they have really occurred? Critics agree that David Alexander more often than not makes you believe this is more than possible. Here, in this omnibus edition of selections from his outstanding novels, including the prizewinning thrillers Trainjack, Habu Patch, Brooklynese, Snake Handlers, Chain Reaction, Switchback, I Kinda Spy, Brothers of the Gun and Death Pulse, David Alexander proves time and again that the masterpieces he's conceived and written give him unchallenged claim to leadership in the novel and the short story. For those who are already familiar with the spectacular novels of David Alexander, this omnibus edition will open the door to an entirely new reading experience. For those not yet acquainted with his work, this book will be a voyage of discovery to new worlds of mindblowing fiction that's bound to whet their appetites for more by this astonishingly brilliant author.
Download or read book The Complete Book of the SR 71 Blackbird written by Richard H. Graham and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate guide to the history, development, manufacture, modification, and active service of all fifty models in the SR-71 program. At the height of the Cold War in 1964, President Johnson announced a new aircraft dedicated to strategic reconnaissance. The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane flew more than three-and-a-half times the speed of sound—so fast that no other aircraft could catch it. Above 80,000 feet, its pilots had to wear full-pressure flight suits similar to what was used aboard the space shuttle. Developed by the renowned Lockheed Skunk Works, the SR-71 was an awesome aircraft in every respect. It was withdrawn from use in 1998, when it was superseded by satellite technology. Twelve of the thirty-two aircraft were destroyed in accidents, but none were ever lost to enemy action. Throughout its thirty-four-year career, the SR-71 was the world’s fastest and highest-flying operational manned aircraft. It set world records for altitude and speed: an absolute altitude record of 85,069 feet and an absolute speed record of 2,193.2 miles per hour. The Complete Book of the SR-71 Blackbird covers every aspect of the SR-71’s development, manufacture, modification, and active service from the insider’s perspective of one of its pilots and is lavishly illustrated with more than 400 photos. Former pilot and author Richard Graham also examines each of the fifty planes that came out the SR-71 program (fifteen A-12s; three YF-12s; and thirty-two SR-71s) and tells each plane’s history, its unique specifications, and where each currently resides.
Download or read book Combat Crew written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book SR 71 Blackbird Stories Tales and Legends written by Richard H. Graham and published by . This book was released on with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feel the Mach 3 power generated by Lockheed's incredibly fast SR-71 Blackbird! Former SR-71 pilot, instructor and wing commander, Richard Graham, presents the most intriguing SR-71 stories ever told. This once highly classified program is fully revealed through the words of pilots, commanders, mechanics, and instructors involved in the Blackbird's creation and flight-testing. From grueling reconnaissance missions to the Persian Gulf conflict, this insightful book tells stories of bravery and daring determination.
Download or read book I Kinda Spy written by David Alexander and published by Triumvirate Publications. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a threat emerges that's too big for the CIA, too dangerous for MI6 and too frightening to contemplate, there's only one secret agent who can prevail against it. When he joins forces with a talented group of covert action operators, this impossible mission becomes just another day in the spy business. I Kinda Spy is a global superthriller that pits masters of espionage and mandarins of supercrime against each other in a winner-take-all fight to the finish. SUPERSPIES VS. SUPERCRIMINALS A deadly terrorist organization threatens global security and a deep black espionage agency tasks its most capable operative with a do-or-die assignment. An international criminal cartel bent on getting its hands on a multibillion dollar payoff and will stop at nothing to suit its ends, opposes him with the hand-picked elite of the world's foremost assassins. SUPERSPIES VS. SUPERCRIMINALS "This thriller has more action, more adventure, more plain everything you want to read in a thriller, than any ten similar reads I could name. Read this exceptional thriller by David Alexander today." SUPERSPIES VS. SUPERCRIMINALS Urbane yet action-packed, stylish yet hard-hitting, I Kinda Spy is a spy story that plays for keeps.
Download or read book The Man From D A V E written by David Alexander and published by Triumvirate Publications. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A daring secret agent of the worldwide D.A.V.E. spy organization is sent on a perilous mission to save humanity from a weapon as futuristic as a space-based high-energy laser and as ancient as the burning ray of ancient weapon master Archimedes of Syracuse. The action begins in Germany, races across Europe from France to Switzerland, Austria and Italy, then booms across Eastern Europe and roars across the Balkans into Greece, from where it hurtles eastward to the Black Sea port of Odessa, and then rockets into orbit. Plus, this thriller even has its own sound track. So don't wait until the movie comes out. The Man From D.A.V.E. is a feature film in thriller novel form. You'll find this out when a bunched fist aimed at your jaw launches from your Kindle and you find yourself dodging bullets to get to the next paragraph alive.
Download or read book Lockheed Blackbird written by Paul F. Crickmore and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1986 Paul Crickmore's first groundbreaking book about the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird was published. At that time, the Cold War was at its height and the SR-71 was an integral element in securing crucial intelligence from all parts of the globe. The highly sensitive nature of its missions couldn't be compromised, and it wasn't until the end of the Cold War that the operational exploits of this incredible aeronautical masterpiece could be openly written about. As time passed has more and more information has come to light, with a vast number of official documents declassified and key military figures able to talk openly about the Blackbird programme. Paul Crickmore has used these updated facts to revise his previous history of one of the world's most iconic aircraft of all time, creating what will surely be considered the definitive, timeless volume about the SR-71 Blackbird.
Download or read book Blackbird A History of the Untouchable Spy Plane written by James Hamilton-Paterson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of the spy plane SR-71 Blackbird—the fastest manned aircraft in the history of aviation. The SR-71 Blackbird, the famed “spy” jet, was deliberately designed to be the world's fastest and highest-flying aircraft—and its success has never been approached since. It was conceived in the late 1950s by Lockheed Martin's highly secret 'Skunk Works' team under one of the most (possibly the most) brilliant aero designers of all time, Clarence “Kelly” Johnson. Once fully developed in 1964, the Blackbird represented the apogee of jet-powered flight. It could fly at well over three times the speed of sound above 85,000 feet and had an unrefueled range of 3,200 nautical miles. It flew with great success until 1999). Despite extensive use over Vietnam and later battlefields, not one was ever shot down (unlike the U2 in the Gary Powers incident). The Blackbird's capabilities seem unlikely ever to be exceeded. It was retired because its function can be performed by satellites—and in today's steady trend toward unmanned military aircraft, it is improbable that another jet aircraft of this speed and caliber will ever again be conceived.
Download or read book Trainjack written by David Alexander and published by Triumvirate Publications. This book was released on with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NYPD detective is recruited as a rail marshall by a brother cop on the police force of Paris, France, and gets caught up in the hijack of the century. Trainjack is raw-edged excitement ... David Alexander takes the railway thriller to places that it has never gone before. SUPERCRIME MEETS SUPERTRAIN. Trainjack barrels along at a breakneck pace. The faster this high-speed thriller goes, the better it gets. SUPERCRIME MEETS SUPERTRAIN. Written with daring verve and accomplished skill, plotted with the deft touch of a master prose stylist, packed with surprises at practically every turn, Trainjack is an exceptional technothriller from one of the top authors in the field. SUPERCRIME MEETS SUPERTRAIN. Danger and high intrigue make a train connection with espionage, treachery and passion. Alexander has created characters so original they seem to jump right off Trainjack's excitement-packed pages. Trainjack, a global crime technothriller by author David Alexander.
Download or read book Snake Handlers written by David Alexander and published by Triumvirate Publications. This book was released on 2023-08-17 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Launch facilities for weapons of mass destruction on the Korean Peninsula must be destroyed before they can be used against the West by the North Korean military dictator and his Neo-Soviet allies, potentially escalating the fighting and forcing a break with the NATO alliance that could lead to massive retaliation and global war, a move which would play into the hands of expansionist militarists in the Kremlin. At the same time another threat looms, one created by the Pentagon itself in the form of a super-intelligent cloud computer that has plans of its own which spell trouble for the entire human race. This is a thriller by David Alexander, author of Under Attack, Threatcon Delta: Assault on the Pentagon, and other award-winning fiction and acclaimed nonfiction titles.
Download or read book Double Truth on the Second Level written by David Alexander and published by Triumvirate Publications. This book was released on with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ROBERT HUNTER (Grateful Dead Songwriter and Lyricist): "Alexander is a modern de Maupassant with a Kafkian sense of linearity, a Borgesque bent for the uncanny, and a unique pile of resources to draw on. …His stories transcend interpersonal morality and ethics in a way calculated to elicit the pure subjectivity of the characters, without judgment. Unlike Dostoyevski's Raskolnikov, there is no redemption offered to readers demanding moral resolution. Poe's The Tell-tale Heart and much of Lovecraft's work come closest to what he does. Kafka gets the intellectual setup but doesn't develop the emotional intensity. [Alexander's] work is very unique." SAN FRANCISCO SALVO: "David Alexander sets strong and resourceful characters into settings that are simultaneously familiar and bizarre. His stories are everyone's, at least everyone that is paying attention to the continual apocalypse of life and relationship in the 21st century. In Haywire Car Alarm Deep In September Night Alexander carries the vision of modern life to hallucinogenic heights and answers the dilemma of dream and reality: Each are so vitally important to the person experiencing them that the question of reality becomes secondary. What is most important in life is common to both: an urge to penetrate the mystery, to be socially effective, to solve, to writhe in pleasure and terror. In the waking and dreaming states, the observant mind finds that each informs the other, each provides insight to the other domain, each provides a possible solution to the mind that desperately attempts to contain them both. As a critic, I feel compelled to complain about some failure of quality of the work that I criticize. However, I can find little to complain about. Alexander's characters are developed clearly through their actions. None of them spend much time complaining about their situation but instead face it squarely, dynamically, peering into the mystery, clearly seeing its details actively played out in visual and audio cues, and trying to interpret and solve. That they so often end in defeat in spite of their strengths, alludes to the awesome mass of the problem that we all face." FREDERICK BARTHELME (EDITOR IN CHIEF, MISSISSIPPI REVIEW): "There are few young story writers working today more vibrant, innovative and exciting than David Alexander. His stories jump off the page in fits of sensory attack, spiritual complication, emotional trouble. I don't know where he came from, but I know where he's going -- to the front rank of American storytellers."
