Viktor Robotov the terrorist is finally dead. Only he has left behind a plan to destroy the world. Six nuclear bombs have been hidden around the Mediterranean. The plan is these bombs will manage to drain the sea. The salt flats will reflect sunlight into the atmosphere and melt the icecaps. Thus, flooding the world. Hawk Hunter and the United Americans send the carrier USS USA to find and recover these nukes before they detonate. They have Viktor’s daughter Viktoria on their side. She deciphers torn drawings from when she was a child to find the hiding places. They have to fight mercenary armies hired by Viktor’s widow known as the Black Widow. She has inherited her husband’s terror network and has nefarious plans of her own. It ends with a big battle at the pyramids.
Another fun entry in the Wingman series. This one has all the goofy stuff you expect in the series. Over the top action and villains. The three big villains are Khan, Sven-Sven Gunnar and Crazy Norman. There are these C-130 airplanes converted as gunships that are remote controlled to guard the nuke sites. Known as dragons thus the title. I enjoy this series as fun and hope that Maloney continues it.
Palestinian terrorists manage to break into a secret Naval facility called Darpa Alpha. After murdering all the scientists, they get the plans to a technology. The ability to create bullets that can travel at Mach 10. Well like any problem the only one who can do anything is Discount Patton. He quickly assembles his guys and goes to Idaho to capture them. Only he fails and the terrorists leave a note for him saying “Americans Suck.”
Needless to say, he needs payback. The terrorists have delivered the plans to a group of renegade Russian military officers around Lake Kanka in Siberia. They will manufacture the bullets for the terrorists. Discount Patton has twenty-four hours to destroy the base. With a Marine Expeditionary force, he lands in Siberia and after heavy fighting manages to destroy the Russian base. Once again making the world safe for democracy.
The final book in the series and Slater decided to go back to its roots. Namely fighting Russians in Siberia. This is the best of his post 9/11 books although the bar isn’t raised very high. This at least had some stuff going on and was moderately interesting. He even had Discount Patton screw up with capturing the terrorists. Also, not a midget submarine in sight which he seemed to have some obsession with in the last two books.
The series has a very weird history. It stated out in the closing days of the cold war and was a more traditional Soviet/NATO war. Then it morphed into some globalist stuff about fighting the Siberians and Chinese under the UN to preserve the peace. Finally ending up as a war on terror post 9/11. I don’t think he should have bothered with the final phase. They just seem so dated even more so that the stuff from the nineties. They were boring as hell and seemed obsessed with showing off his total lack of knowledge in naval affairs.
Now this was the final book in the series. Yet you never know. This series has come back like Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th movies. You think it’s done, and he pops out another one in a whole new reality. So could we see another in the future. One now that has Discount Patton taking on all the evil countries going against the globalist new order. Have him put all those evil Russians, Chinese, Iranians, Indians, Brazilians, South Africans etc. etc. in their place. Have them all accept the dollar as the reserve currency and follow the WTO.
Maybe but I think it should be put to rest. It was amusing when it started out but doesn’t translate well for the new century.
Terrorists launch an attack on civilian airliners using MANPADS (Man-portable air defense systems). The attacks bring down three airliners in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas. Hundreds of innocent civilians including children are killed. Fortunately for America, Discount Patton gets right on it. He immediately figures out everything. The MANPADS have come from a warehouse in North Korea. Discount Patton organizes his Specfor men into a raid on the warehouse. Using an advanced midget sub, they infiltrate the coast and destroy the warehouse. They also bring back proof of the North Korean’s involvement with terrorists.
The second post 9/11 book is a boring as his last one. It goes on and on about nothing. There is a creepy relationship Discount Patton forms with his sister-in-law. A subplot with Japanese Americans who spy for North Korea because of their treatment during WWII. Oh, they manage to trace the MANPADS originally because they match the serial numbers. Then they need to get one from the warehouse to show it is from the other ones used which makes no sense. Even the big battle at the end is mind-numbingly dull. Slaters attempt to resurrect this series for a more modern time is a dismal failure.
Tensions are building in the world. A terrorist attack in China has the Chinese invade neighboring Kazakhstan. They also get into a fight with Taiwan. The US President decides to send another carrier group to the Straits of Taiwan to join the one already there. Only the group is attacked while leaving their port in Seattle. While going through the straits of Juan de la Fuca a nuclear submarine hits a mine. Soon the carrier hits some mines and sinks. Later it is determined a midget sub has been laying mines in the strait. The US is humiliated, and the midget sub continues to cause chaos. They sink an Aegis cruiser, a car ferry and launch cruise missiles against an oil refinery.
So, what is the answer? To call in Discount Patton from retirement. He gathers his old special forces guys and gets to work. He finds out that the Chinese are backing the terrorist Li Kuan to stop the Navy from interfering with their invasion of Taiwan. He tracks the subs down. There are two and it involves finding tunnels made by Vietnamese immigrants to resupply them. Thankfully he saves the day.
Slater decided to resurrect his WWIII series post 9/11. He really shouldn’t have bothered. This is one of the worst books I ever read. It goes on and on about absolutely nothing. The whole idea is absurd with these midget subs wreaking havoc. The first 100 pages of this 400+ book has literally nothing happening. Everyone is completely incompetent except of course Discount Patton. They need an army general to figure out a navy problem. There is goofy stuff like a diplomat’s daughter murdered in China for overhearing the plot. A Chinese general disguised as this mastermind terrorist Li Kuan. A suicide fighter managing to seriously damage the carrier in the straits and endless yapping about nothing.
The past books seem to basically have never occurred except Discount Patton’s brilliant move against the Siberians where he waited until the temperature froze the lubricants on the Siberians tanks. Otherwise, there must have been no fighting at all with China or North Korea. Oh, and Russia is apparently part of NATO in this whacky alternate reality. A really bad idea to resurrect this series post 9/11 and I would recommend avoiding at all costs.
THE BOOKS THAT TIME FORGOT. 