Audio Book Description:
On the run from the Pasdaran, the theocrat`s terror army,and unable to count on support from his friends in the regular arms, Iranian rebel leaderGeneral Hesarak al-Kan Buzhazi desperately turns to his old nemesis, US Air Force lieutenant-General Patrick McLanahan, for help. Unwilling tocommit American forces in an Iranian civil war, and with time running out, the US president authorizes McLanahan to utilize a new, top-secret fleetof globe-crossing spaceplanes, the XR-A9 Black Stallions, led by test pilot and astronaut Captain Hunter Noble. Withing hours, McLanahan`s AirBattle Force turns the tide, possibly changing the course of history in the Middle East forgenerations. The advent of almost instantaneous global reach,along with the reactivation of America`sfirst military space station, Silver Tower, has rekindled fears of space armsrace, and the growing insurgency inIran is threatening to erupt into a worldwide jihad. But McLanahan finds himself embroiled in even more bitter battlesat the White House, betweenthose who support his space-based military initiative andthose who are working secretly to undermine it. When McLanahan is forced to concentrateon his political and personal battles back at home, it`s leftto Hunter Noble and his team ofyoung American space engineers to keep the fires of freedomin the Middle East from exploding completely out of control.