End Game

End Game
Dale Brown

Jim DeFelice

The eighth in the series of high-tech thrillers centred on Dreamland – a top-secret USAF weapons research centre – from the acclaimed author of ‘Act of War’ and ‘Plan of Attack.’While the Dreamland team is perfecting their latest weapon, code-named ‘End game’, an electromagnetic bomb that can knock out any electric device for miles, an Islamic terrorist cell is conducting covert attacks in the Arabian Sea. Targeting Indian ships and oil facilities, the terrorists seem to be escaping into thin air. India suspects that their long-time enemy Pakistan is behind the attacks and tensions between the two nuclear powers reaches breaking point. Meanwhile China is patrolling the sea, eager to flex the muscle of its new fleet of warships, and is drawn into the mix when one of its ships is mysteriously attacked. All-out war between the three countries appears imminent unless the Dreamland team can find out who is really behind the attacks. And their new End Game weapon may be the only hope of avoiding catastrophe.

DALE BROWN’S DREAMLAND

End Game

WRITTEN BY DALE BROWNAND JIM DEFELICE

Contents

Cover (#ub64f5ee8-ee8e-58da-a5b3-347c1cf2890c)

Title Page (#u5f769a22-7e4a-5c72-9e06-58dde3b90c0b)

Prelude: Dreams (#ulink_a0f6a815-5980-5dc6-9bd9-e65165a32bcd)

I: Test Run (#ulink_aa5b7fe9-281f-5768-8b00-1e3f8d1d1ee4)

II: Impossible! (#ulink_037eedd7-b3e1-576d-a68d-3bc381ca5d70)

III: Be Boarded, or Be Sunk (#litres_trial_promo)

IV: Monkeys in the Middle (#litres_trial_promo)

V: Fires of Hell (#litres_trial_promo)

VI: Catastrophic Events (#litres_trial_promo)

VII: Coming to Their Senses (#litres_trial_promo)

VIII: Inevitability (#litres_trial_promo)

IX: End Game (#litres_trial_promo)

X: Tai-shan (#litres_trial_promo)

XI: Fates Unknown (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Also by Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

Dreamland

Duty Roster

LIEUTENANT COLONEL TECUMSEH ‘DOG’ BASTIAN

Dreamland’s commander has been mellowed by the demands of his new command – but he’s still got the meanest bark in the West, and his bite is even worse.

MAJOR JEFFREY ‘ZEN’ STOCKARD

A top fighter pilot until a crash at Dreamland left him a paraplegic, Zen has volunteered for a medical program that may let him use his legs again. Can Dreamland survive with a key member away?

CAPTAIN BREANNA ‘RAP’ STOCKARD

Zen’s wife has seen him through his injury and rehabilitation. But can she balance her love for her husband with the demands of her career … and ambitions?

MAJOR MACK ‘THE KNIFE’ SMITH

Mack Smith is the best pilot in the world – and he’ll tell you so himself. But filling in for Zen on the Flighthawk program may be more than even he can handle.

CAPTAIN DANNY FREAH

Danny commands Whiplash – the ground attack team that works with the cutting-edge Dreamland aircraft and hightech gear.

JED BARCLAY

The young deputy to the National Security Advisor is Dreamland’s link to the President. Barely old enough to shave, the former science whiz kid now struggles to master the intricacies of world politics.

LIEUTENANT KIRK ‘STARSHIP’ ANDREWS

A top Flighthawk pilot, Starship is tasked to help on the Werewolf project, flying robot helicopters that are on the cutting edge of air combat. Adjusting to the aircraft is easy, but can he live with the Navy people who are in charge of it?

CAPTAIN HAROLD ‘STORM’ GALE, USN

As a young midshipman at Annapolis, Gale got Army’s goat – literally: he stole the West Point mascot just before the annual Army-Navy game. Now he’s applying the same brashness to his role as commander of the Abner Read. An accomplished sailor, the only thing he hates worse than the enemy is the Air Force.

Dreamland

Weapons Systems

MEGAFORTRESS

Refurbished B-52s, complete with new skin, new wings and tail section, new engines and new sensor systems. Besides generic versions, Dreamland flies EB-52s that carry AWACS and ground-surveillance radar, and others that carry electronic warfare and snooping equipment.

FLIGHTHAWK

Unmanned fighter aircraft typically flown from the lower weapons bay of the Megafortress. Depending on its configuration, a Megafortress will carry two or four of the robot aircraft.

WEREWOLF