Brown, Dale

Charged with saving America's top aerospace weapons testing center, Dreamland, after it is infiltrated by a spy, Lieutenant Colonel Tecumseh "Dog" Bastian uses a conflict in Somalia to prove the facility's worth, and sends his own daughter, pilot of a Megafortress bomber, into the fight.

U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Patrick McLanahan is sent to train a tactical strike unit designed to seek out and destroy enemy missiles, but he runs out of time when a surprise attack results in the formation of the United Republic of Korea and this newest nuclear power's refusal to destroy captured weapons threatens to set off WWIII.

Efforts by U.S. Major Richter and his high-tech special operations unit to control drug traffic and illegal immigration on the U.S.-Mexican border are complicated by drug kingpin and migrant smuggler Ernesto Fuerza, a right-wing radio talk-show host, and the discovery that Fuerza is backed by Richter's long-time nemesis, Soviet terrorist Yegor Zakharov.