Bøger af Mack Maloney

Wrong Place...Right TimeFollow Hollywood sensation Al Ferrari on a true-crime odyssey as he navigates the tough urban environment of Greater Boston in the late 1980s. Meet Lonely Larry, Crazy Louie, Jumbo Zal, Pete Pistol and The Plum Girl as they help Al along the way to stardom.In this book, you will learn:- How not to burn a car- How to turn a Celica into a Rolls-Royce- How not to rip off Sears- How to really piss off the Mob. . . and more!Recommended for aspiring celebrities everywhere.Soon to be a motion picture.

THE STRIKEMASTERS ARE TAKING THE FIGHT TO THE ENEMY-WITH OR WITHOUT BACKUP.The men of the 201st Special Operations Wing have gone rogue, tackling dangerous missions beyond the scope of U.S. law. With stealth aircraft and ultra high-tech fighting vehicles, this elite team is going after the agents of genocide in Africa-while their own government calls them criminals.Their former commander, Colonel Doug Newman, has been taking the heat for them. Now the government needs their help. A gang of terrorists have been causing trouble, searching for a rare form of yellowcake uranium. In exchange for tracking down the hooligans, the U.S. government will dismiss the Strikemasters' previous "crimes." But the terrorists' trail might lead right back to the United States...

Flying over a shattered nation, ace pilot Hawk Hunter comes face to face with his greatest enemyThe United States may have defeated the Soviet Union in the Battle for Western Europe, but the Russians ended World War III with a nuclear sneak attack that shattered America into a collection of warring states dominated by criminals, fascists, and pirates. Air power rules all in the New Order, and pilots like Hawk Hunter are the only form of law.One of the most decorated pilots of the old US Air Force, he flies for the Pacific American Air Corps, a loose group of flyboys who have taken it upon themselves to safeguard what remains of US borders. Flying his U-2 over the frozen tundra late one night, Hunter detects something on his infrared camera: fifty jet fighters, accompanied by a full-scale invasion force. And their sides bear the emblem that frightens him most: the red star of the Soviet Union. World War IV is about to begin.The Circle War is the second book of the Wingman series, which also includes Wingman and The Lucifer Crusade.

After a mysterious disappearance, the ace fighter pilot is back, searching for answers to his missing memorybut still ready to defend post-WWIII America. It's been a decade since Hawk Hunter, famed American World War III hero and legendary pilot, vanished on an extraterrestrial mission to save his country. Presumed dead, Hunter found himself in a strange alternate universe where the planes were bigger than seemed possible and the dead walked the earth. Now he is back, and America needs his help once more.The fragile new America that Hunter helped build has shattered in his absence. He has no memory of where he has been for the past ten years, knowing only that he can bring peace to his beloved country once and for all. Seeking answers at the secret research base known as Area 51, Hawk uncovers a strange new threat to his fractured homeland. There is only one thing to do. His memory may be in tatters, but the Wingman has not forgotten how to fly.

The first book in the bestselling, action-packed Wingman Series: With America in ashes, and lawlessness threatening to rule land, air, and sea, one pilot stands poised to pull his nation back from the brink of all-out anarchy The Big War started in Western Europe with a Soviet nerve gas attack that laid waste to France, Germany, and Spain. The world's democracies fought back, and pilots like Hawk Hunter led the chargetearing across the flaming wreckage of the continent at supersonic speeds. They pushed the Russians back and just when victory was in sight, a traitor at the highest level of government turned off America's missile defense system, and Soviet nukes rained from the sky.Two years after the nuclear holocaust, Hunter gets a message to report to his old commander. America is in pieces: Pirates rule the skies, and an airborne armada is plotting to attack Football City (formerly known as St. Louis). The armada is made up of criminals flying state-of-the-art jets, and even though the government can only offer Hunter his old F-16, he will do whatever it takes to reclaim his ravaged homeland.Wingman is the first book of the Wingman series, which also includes The Circle War and The Lucifer Crusade.

7205 A.D. After almost seven centuries of iron-fisted rule, the Fourth Galactic Empire is in the midst of catastrophic warfare following a rebel attack led by its sworn foe-that charismatic enigma, gifted strategist, and pilot named Hawk Hunter.After rebels unexpectedly defeat the Fourth Galactic Empire's Rapid Engagement Fleet, Hawk Hunter's "special help" is suspected. To destroy the rebels, the Empire's storm troopers are going to seize the source that generates all power in the galaxy-a move that will make them invincible and cost trillions of lives.To prevent that, Hawk must undertake his most hazardous mission ever: to seek out the one man who can stop the Empire-before it starts the worst Dark Age in history..."In Starhawk, Mack Maloney has created a Champion of Justice."-Midwest Book Review

The year is 7202 A.D. Evolving from genetic manipulation and virtually immortal, the Specials wielded their repressive power over a far-flung empire for nearly two thousand years. Until one man-a man of mystery, a gifted military strategist, a superb pilot, a charismatic leader-dared to raise the flag of rebellion. That man is Hawk Hunter.In the middle of a fierce battle with the Imperial forces, Hunter suddenly finds himself alone. His badly-damaged fleet has vanished-gone through a portal to another dimension. They can lay low, rest, make repairs, and gain strength for their next assault.But the enemy also finds the portal-and it leads them to a different dimension where they discover powerful and deadly new allies.Now Hunter must undertake his own Interdimensional search for support. Because when the portal reopens, the battle that follows could destroy not only the rebels and the Empire, but also the entire galaxy. "In Starhawk, Mack Maloney has created a Champion of Justice."-Midwest Book Review

Lead by Hawk Hunter, the freedom fighters have brought revolution to the Emperor's door. But those who rule the galactic empire under militaristic oppression will do anything to maintain power-and the billion-years old secret that lies behind it. A sure-fire hit for action-adventure readers." -Midwest Book Review"In Starhawk, Mack Maloney has created a Champion of Justice."-Midwest Book Review

Nazi Germany has found the perfect assassin... on death row. A novel of war, madness-and murder...Willy Skass is a serial killer......and in the waning days of World War II, as Nazi Germany faces defeat, Skass faces his own execution inside the walls of a Berlin prison.But Skass is about to find himself a free man. Because the Nazis want the President of the United States dead. And they're hoping that practice makes the perfect assassin.

Searching for the mythical Home Planets, renegade Imperial pilot Hawk Hunter goes AWOL, journeying across the galaxy to find Planet America, the possible birthplace of humankind, but he soon discovers that an alien armada has targeted the world for destruction and that it is up to him to stop the disaster. "In Starhawk, Mack Maloney has created a Champion of Justice."-Midwest Book Review

IN 1947, THE U.S. ARMY ANNOUNCED THE RECOVERY OF A FLYING SAUCER NEAR ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO-AND THEN DENIED IT. THE WORLD WAS LEFT TO WONDER. AND THEN THE WORLD FORGOT... Someone was killing America's top gun fighter pilots. The war games fought between "Friendly" and "Aggressor" forces high above an ultra-secret electronic battlefield in the American southwest were meant to simulate combat-yet American pilots were suddenly being lost at an alarming rate to real missiles and bullets. The Cold War was supposedly over. Or was it? USAF Colonel Ryder Long was a fearless right-stuff pilot who believed that rules were made to be broken. His assignment from the highest officials in the United States intelligence services meant breaking every rule in the book: take to the skies in his F-15X Strike Eagle jet on a do-or-die mission against the mysterious Aggressors who held the key to the deadly war games-and the long-forgotten Roswell Incident. For Ryder Long it could only end with the survival of a threatened America... or death in the bloody skies over the high-tech battlefield called... WAR HEAVEN.

On a remote planet on the edge of the galaxy, Hawk Hunter, a pilot with a unique talent for design, whose own abilities, origins, and past are a mystery, is drawn into a state-sponsored gladiatorial contest that pits pilot against pilot, a competition that not only will test his own limits but also could reveal the secrets of his identity.

THE WARLORD OF A REMOTE MOUNTAIN KINGDOM HAS A DIRTY LITTLE SECRET-A NUCLEAR DEVICE THAT WILL BRING CHINESE, SOVIET AND AMERICAN LEADERS TO THEIR KNEES-AND TURN THE WORLD INTO A LIFELESS DESERT...Led by a maverick flyer named Ryder Long who believes all rules are made to be broken, a handful of misfits, rebels and flying fools make up the mission that alone can stop the mysterious twentieth-century warlord, Colonel Toon, in his Southeast Asian fortress.The target of Long's mission, called Thunder Alley, has never been penetrated by hostile forces; it is a graveyard of the best and the bravest. As Ryder Long prepares his mission, time is running out-the deadline for the death of the world approaches.

After the U.S. space shuttle captures a secret spy satellite, it makes a forced landing in China. The U.S. is desperate to get the shuttle back, but the operation must be quiet. The only answer is the Chopper Ops team. But they'll have to finish the job-before it finishes them.

Peace on Earth. Good will towards men. Not likely...The Christmas holidays are anything but merry after a group of renegade Soviets hijack a rusting relic of the old Northern Fleet-with a cargo of nuclear warheads. Only the men of Chopper Ops stand between them and worldwide nuclear holocaust...

The most technically-advanced, armed cargo plane ever created has vanished and a specialized team of elite helicopter pilots has been sent into Saudi Arabia to retrieve it. They are the Chopper Ops, and they have only one chance to succeed.

YOU CAN'T STOP WHAT YOU CAN'T SEE...A NEW KIND OF WAR NEEDS A NEW KIND OF WEAPON-AND A NEW BREED OF WARRIOR.Deep in the Nevada desert, the latest evolution in modern warfare is being tested. The 201st Special Operations Wing is home to the new Strikemasters-C-17 transport planes converted into stealth-skinned airborne arsenals. Manned by ace pilots and technicians, and carrying a lethal complement of Abrams tanks, all-terrain fighting vehicles, combat helicopters, and boots-on-the-ground troopers, the Strikemasters are the ultimate fast-moving, hard-hitting weapon. And they are about to test their limits.A group of al Qaeda marauders has mercilessly destroyed a "forbidden" school for girls in the lawless mountains of Pakistan and abducted the aid workers. They plan to kill their hostages and sell the footage to the highest bidder. In their mountain stronghold, the captors think they are safe from any attack.The Strikemasters are about to prove them wrong...

THE SECRET WARRIORS-They were America's top test pilots-but the test they were making now would never make the headlines. They had to sneak America's newest air weapon-the F-86 Sabre Jet-into the skies over Korea to see if it stood up against the rampaging Red MiGs. The next ten days of secret combat would decide the fate of the war-while back in the States, a renegade U.S. general is secretly poised to begin spinning a web of intrigue that threatens to ground America's finest flying men forever. Flaming battle in the sky... cold-blooded treachery on the ground... and adventure that breaks through the thrill barrier in the greatest air epic of all... STORM BIRDS: THE GATHERING STORM.

The XF-86 Sabre jet. It was the most sophisticated air weapon ever developed-or so America hoped as the nation faced the chilling dawn of the Cold War. But first it had to be tested... in the perilous New Mexico proving grounds of the new age of atomic warfare...The men who flew the test missions were as fine-tuned as their machines-but it was the stuff they were made of that made the difference... in a savage secret war in the Korean skies and in-fighting on the ground that never made the headlines but made and changed history...You'll also want to read Desert Lightning, the first exciting novel in this rousing new series about U.S. test pilots, STORM BIRDS

It's the beginning of VE Day and the end of the war in Europe heralds a newer war with the Soviets. Monopolizing and exploiting German technological breakthroughs will be critical in the new cold war. A cadre of USAF officers gathers captured German rockets and planes in a remote desert base. They've got captured pilots and scientists as well-but can't trust them much. Instead, using ENIAC, they amass a small number of USAAF pilots with the idea of forming the first of America's jet fighter squadrons. Distrust of the Germans and their planes is only one the problems-our heroes must also contend with an insane chain of command determined to make the cranky planes work and fight in ways they were not designed to be used.

"The best high-action thriller writer out there today, bar none."-Jon Land, USA Today bestselling authorWingman and his allies have finally rid the world of Supervillain Viktor Robotov, but the maniacal terrorist's ghost still haunts our battered, post-apocalyptic planet.The United Americans have learned from a mysterious source that before his death, Viktor planted six nuclear-armed booby traps around the Mediterranean, their detonation points providing clues to the Russian madman's ultimate revenge of ending all life on Earth.Sailing aboard their gigantic aircraft carrier, the USS USA, the Americans must not only face Viktor's "dragons" as they battle their way across the Med, they must also get inside the mind of the Devil himself and beat his allies to the nukes' secret locations-or face a watery Armageddon.

Maloney delivers an examination into the mystery of UFO sightings--what they could be, when they appear, and why observations of them increase during times of war. Includes photos of UFO sightings. Original.

An ace fighter pilot aims to save a shattered America from Russian invasion in this new Wingman novel from ';the best high-action thriller writer out there'(Jon Land). Former US Air Force major Hawk Hunter and his band of patriotic ex-military men have fought tirelessly to reunite their fractured nation after the Russian nuclear sneak attack that put a devastating end to World War III. Now, returning from a space odyssey that began with the diversion of a comet headed for Earth, Hunter finds a 60,000-man Russian army occupying New York City, ready to invade the rest of America. Equally alarming are reports claiming that Hawk's former girlfriend, Dominique, is living with the head of the Russian secret police in a Manhattan penthouse. Buzzing through the city's skyscraper canyons in a tiny STOL Highlander and glimpsing the enemy invaders' massive weaponry for himself, Hawk realizes he's up against the greatest danger his homeland has ever faced, even with the help of Captain ';Bull' Dozer and his team of ex-Marines. But with the woman and the country he loves in dire peril, threatened by a mysterious convoy of Russian superships, the Wingman will apply all his aviation prowess and strategic ingenuity to devise a plan to launch the fiercest, most crucial battle for America yet, no matter the risks. Filled with fast-paced, furious action and a wide range of aircraft and military hardware that will fascinate techno-thriller fans, Battle for America brings back favorite characters from earlier books in the series and delivers a riveting story that reveals new insight on America's most enigmatic hero: the Wingman.