Act of War takes readers deep into the new world of intelligence-focused warfare, and introduces a new hero: 32-year-old army engineer Jason Richter, designer of a whole array of futuristic infantry weapons and devices to hunt down a new breed of enemy. His unlikely partner is FBI Special Agent Kelsey Cornell, a no-nonsense intelligence officer who is caught between two brutal worlds: the terrorists who kill without remorse and Richter's high-tech military hunter-killers who will stop at nothing to destroy them. As the head of a top-secret military unit, code-named Task Force TALON, Richter must lead his group against a cabal of international terrorists - backed by a powerful consortium - who are determined to destabilize the global economy.
A high-tech thriller written by Brown and read by Dufris is a hard act to follow. First, you have gadgets like CID, a nine-foot robot you can climb inside and with which you can do superhuman feats. Then you have a reader whose natural voice is melodic and whose characterizations, including women, are one hundred percent convincing. All this comes together in a yarn about a group of conspirators who set off a thermonuclear device at an oil complex near Houston, killing thousands. Finally, you have U.S. Army Engineer Major Jason Richtor, a new character for Brown, who parlays smarts and technology into finding and eliminating the terrorist threat. A.L.H. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
About the Author
Dale Brown is the author of more than a dozen New York Times bestsellers, starting with Flight of the Old Dog in 1987, and most recently Air Battle Force and Plan of Attack, both available as Sound Library® audiobooks. A former U.S. Air Force captain, he can often be found flying his own plane in the skies over Nevada.
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