Brown, Dale - Fatal Terrain by Brown Dale

Author:Brown, Dale [Brown, Dale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780006498476
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Published: 1998-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

point of irritation, and demanding of everyone with whom he

came into contact. He flew the EB-52 with practiced, method-

ical precision, strictly by the book-which he should know,

because he had personally written most of it and reviewed all

of it for many years-but he did it more with dogged impa-

tience, without his usual sense of happiness and purpose.

Well, there was certainly nothing going on to get too excited

about right now. The worldwide hue and cry over the nuclear

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detonations near mainland China had quieted all participants

down considerably. Only about a third of the world media

believed the People's Republic of China's Liberation Army

was responsible for the dreaded nuclear explosions; the rest of

the blame was equally divided between the United States and

Taiwan. This was considered a major propaganda victory for

China and a complete propaganda disaster for Taiwan and the

United States.

As a result of the heavy media and governmental scrutiny,

however, the Formosa Strait was relatively free from heavy

military presences fact that McLanahan was able to verify

by looking at the EB-52 Meg4brtress's God's-eye display on

the supercockpit monitor, which was now being operated by

Captain Denton. The fifty-plus-vessel People's Liberation

Army Navy carrier battle group was gone, dispersed to various

bases or sent south toward Hong Kong to participate in Reu-

nification Day festivities. As far as McLanahan could tell, the

PLAN had only one ship of any size in the region; it had just

appeared on the latest NIRTSat inverse synthetic aperture radar

sweep.

"Okay, did you get IDs on the ships closest to the frigates?"

McLanahan asked.

"Yep," Denton responded. "Coastal trawlers and fishing

vessels, both less than fifty tons. Neither moving faster than

nine knots."

"Good," McLanahan said. "Remember, the system can

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