Like one of the Mach-speed aircraft he so

expertly depicted in such mammoth bestsel|ers

as Day of the Cheetah and Flight of the Old Dog,

Dale Brown s career has skyrocketed since his

retirement from the U.S. Air Force less than five

years ago. An acknowledged superstar of the

action-adventure arena, already a household

name, Brown has now written his most ambi-

tious, wide-ranging and suspenseful work to

date-Hammerheads.

Item: A U.S. Coast Guard Falcon reconnais-

sance jet tracks down an unidentified "smug-

gler s profile" air transport in the Miami sector.

The suspect plane ignores all signals and, rather

than turn tail as they might have in the past, the

dope smugglers open fire, splashing the Falcon

and killing its crew...

Item: A Coast Guard cutter approaches a

rusty Panamanian freighter in the Gulf of Mex-

ico. As the Coasties prepare to board, crewmen

aboard this "rust bucket" open fire with bazoo-

kas, virtually obliterating the cutter s bridge and

killing its men...

The South American drug cartel maintains

the influx of dangerous narcotics into the U.S. at

an all-time high; cooperation among U.S. gov-

ernment agencies responsible for drug interdic-

tion is at an all-time low. The situation calls for a

radical solution.

Enter Rear Admiral Ian Hardcastle. Some say

he is a loose cannon, others that he is precisely

the bold, innovative tactician needed to fight an

increasingly brazen and well-armed enemy.

Hardcastle s solution is radical indeed, and it