Target Utopia: A Dreamland Thriller

Lots of flying action and more advanced technology than is practical in this era but we're getting closer to it every day. Unmanned and autonomous drones are becoming commonplace and remotely piloted combat drones are already being used. Carrying to the near future and his books may be history not fiction. Love the ongoing characters and the great adventure stories. A great read.

Dale Brown's depiction of a potential utopian paradise is OK, though there are some areas such as when the villain supposedly kills his thought to have been the love of his life, or why she shunned him, and left this reader wondering just how the guy escaped being killed or captured, leaving me with the feeling that there may/will be a sequel. Other than thais, it is an OK read fit the summer evenings, while sipping some cool libations in the back yard.

Dale Brown gives us another good military novel. This time he tackles the art of fighting via drones, but not just the slow drones that fly high and drop ordinance from the sky to take out terrorist. This time it is drones that are fast, highly maneuverable and capable of fighting in pairs or groups in air to air combat that will drive most pilots to land and never go up again. The artificial intelligence capability of a drone in comparison to the human brain seems to be no contest. The AI can process faster, deliver more options and well, learn. Then put into place a drone without a pilot that can pull an enormous amount of G-Forces in sudden turns, dives, flips, etc. and you have a weapon that can't be beat. A human pilot would black out from the G-force of the turns of the drone. Thus while blacked out he is shot out of the sky. Brown brings his own flying with the military to bear on this novel and knows what he is talking about. With a rogue agent doing his best to build and fly his own drone air force we have an enemy that may be beyond our ability to take out. Thus the President of the United States must turn to it's clandestine group of elite technicians, computer developers and military personnel to find and destroy this rogue operation. All the while they are having to do this while not starting a war with China who is not happy with the USA for being in their backyard and flying what appears to be military operations that could endanger the Chinese. The book is well written, the technology is well documented, the air to air fighting tactics are fabulous. All in all if you love Military Novels you will find this most enjoyable.

Another excellent book about unmanned fighter planes with high speed in air combats. In this story a confrontation in Malaysia allows 2 UAVs to be hi-jacked by a ultra rich man who wants to do away with all governments. The story is about putting down the insurrection and recovering the UAVs. Excellent reading!

I have always enjoyed reading the Dreamland series of books. This one again was a great follow up to the other books. We see the team have to take on some of their own technology. I very much hope that Dale will continue to write more books. Could we see Zen has the next president?

Dale Brown is a good steady author with interesting and thought provoking ideas. I enjoy his works from book to book... but wow, some of the leaps in his technology are just a little hard to swallow. If you understand how computers work, you will struggle with "wait, that can't happen that way". However, if you just go with it, he has reasonable character development and an interesting story progression. This book was a little better than his usual military fiction... if you have enjoyed his past work you will enjoy it, too!

After 40+ years designing state of the art combat weapons platforms (air, surface, sub-sea, satellite) and mission management scenarios, I have high standards for technology plausibility. In my techno-thriller reading, the more and higher the tech, the better. Still, we need more techno-thrillers by military technology experts than by (for example) aircraft pilots. Often the weapons platform crews don't have high enough DoD security clearances and weapon-specific compartments to know much about some of the systems on their platforms. But the weapons and platform designers are usually constrained by their security clearances from speculating and extrapolating publically (e.g., in techno-thrillers) about even hypothetical current and future warfare technologies. Some readers have neither the interest nor the knowledge to appreciate technology in books with lots of it. They should stay away from the Brown, Clancy, etc. genre.

A good read, a Dale Brown thriller and fun. Can't wait for the next one.....it is just an enjoyable series...hope it is not too long to see the new issue. Tremendous character development and consistency yet enough of a change not to be predictable.

Reading now, starts well, expect to enjoy this book as have all others in series

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This product arrived on time and in good order, very pleased.

Another winner by Dale and Jim

brilliant, great writer