Larger	The Day of the Cheetah Author: Dale Brown
	Book Information Publisher: Harpercollins Pub Ltd Book Type: Paperback Members Wishing: 0 Rating: ? ISBN-13: 9780586206300 - ISBN-10: 0586206302 Pages: 656

America's most advanced fighter plane is hijacked-and the greatest high-flying chase of all time begins...
Major Pat McLanahan must recover a secret superjet before the KGB mole who stole it can use it against the United States!

From Publishers Weekly
The year is 1996; the fighter is America's X-34 Dreamstar; and its secret is ANTARES: the interfacing of the pilot's nervous system and the aircraft's computer. The plane's hijack by its pilot, a KGB mole, sets the stage for a fast-moving spectrum of diplomatic and military measures to recover or destroy the prize without starting a world war. Ultimately the task falls to the Cheetah--an F-15 with its own updated avionics, but an "older, less intelligent cousin" of Dreamstar. Brown's action scenes are vivid; his descriptions of contemporary technology accurate; his projections into the near future of aircraft design convincing; and his characterization of the growing internal conflict in the mole has weight and substance.

"Terrific. Authentic and gripping." (The New York Times)