Shadow command
By: Dale Brown
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Charnwood
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9781444800777
Subjects: Patrick McLanahan (Fictitious character); Fiction; Air warfare
Description: "General Patrick McLanahan's new 'Aerospace Battle Force' is based on the Armstrong Space Station. But the program has its critics, including Russia, the United Nations, and the American press. Russian president Leonid Zevitin uses a combination of top-secret anti-spacecraft weaponry, fear-mongering and new U.S. President Joseph Gardner's own egotism in a plan to eliminate support for the space program. Gardner and his allies will stop at nothing, to get what they want. McLanahan ignores directives from the White House and the Pentagon to stand down, and orders the Aerospace Battle Force to attack secret Russian bases in Iran - causing the President to order his immediate arrest. But before the authorities can throw McLanahan in jail, they first have to find him ..."--Publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: London : HaperCollins, 2008.