Raven Strike: A Dreamland Thriller: An Electrifying Military Thriller – Elite Whiplash Unit Battles CIA Black Ops and Terrorists($9.99Value)

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New York Times bestselling author Dale Brown (“The best military adventure writer in the country” —Clive Cussler) joins forces once again with Jim DeFelice for another electrifying Dreamland novel, Raven Strike . In this breathtaking international thriller, Dreamland’s elite Whiplash unit is called to action when an illegal CIA black ops mission goes frighteningly wrong in Africa and a powerful weapon of mass destruction falls into terrorist hands. Raven Strike is explosive, page-turning thriller fiction with political savvy and a razor-sharp military edge, ideal for fans of Vince Flynn, Clive Cussler, Brad Thor, James Rollins, and for the army of loyal readers already firmly in the Dale Brown camp.   The mission is classified . . . and illegal In the blistering heat of the Sudan, the CIA has gone rogue.On the trail of a notorious terrorist, Agency operatives have overstepped their sanctioned boundaries. And now theultimate weapon has fallen into the wrong hands. As Danny Freah and his spec-ops team scramble to recover a topsecret aircraft that has crashed in Africa, Whiplash DirectorJonathon Reid finds himself mysteriously shut off from information about the robot drone and its mission. Maneuvering through the twisted back corridors of the CIA and Washington’s power elite, Reid discovers secrets both illegal and highly dangerous—a virtually unstoppable assassin and an out-of-control clique within the Agency. Torn between loyalty and conscience, Reid must find a way to alert the President and avert a national disaster. But with the Whiplash team caught in the chaos of a brutal African civil war and CIA officials desperate to keep Reid from telling what he knows, a monster re-emerges to target its creators . . . Dale Brown is the  New York Times  bestselling author of numerous books, from  Flight of the Old Dog  (1987) to, most recently,  Eagle Station  (2020). A former U.S. Air Force captain, he can often be found flying his own plane in the skies of the United States. He lives near Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Jim DeFelice  is the author of sixteen  New York Times  bestsellers, including  American Sniper , the basis for Bradley Cooper’s blockbuster movie of the same name. Some of his other credits include  Every Man a Hero , a bestselling account of Army medic Ray Lambert’s heroics at D-Day in World War Two, and  They Called Us Lucky , the story of Lima 3/25, the Marine Corps’ hardest hit unit in the Iraq War and the life of Congressman Ruben Gallego, a Harvard undergrad who joined the Corps to serve as an enlisted grunt. Raven Strike A Dreamland Thriller By Dale Brown HarperCollins Copyright © 2011 Dale Brown All right reserved. ISBN: 9780061713026 Chapter One Southeastern Sudan, Africa It felt as if God himself were hunting him, circling beyond the clouds, watching every movement. An angry, vengeful god, a god obsessed with obliterating him. It felt as if God had singled him out above all to be the focus of his persecution, the modern-day Job. Except that this Job must die, and die harshly, in bloody fire and unimaginable pain. To survive, this Job must do nothing less than outwit God. Such thoughts would have been blasphemous to a believer, but Li Han did not believe in the Christian god, let alone the vengeful, twisted Allah his paymasters had created from their own misinterpretations of scripture. To Li Han, all conceptions of god were superstition, tales told to children to get them to bed at night. Li Han had no religion except survival, and no ambition beyond that. Once, he had dreams. Once, he’d even had desires beyond staying alive. He was going to be rich. He desired this so badly that he would do anything for it. And he had. Like a fool. Too late, he learned that wealth and comfort were illusions. The simplest facts had taken so long to understand. The pilotless aircraft droned above. Li Han could hear it above as he rested at the side of the mine shaft. He had constructed a passive radar device to tell him where the aircraft was, but it wasn’t necessary now. All he needed were his ears. Li Han waited as the engines grew louder. He saw it in his mind’s eye as it came overhead. It was the shape of a dagger, sleeker than the UAVs he’d seen farther south, different than the one in Pakistan that had fired at his car but missed. It was a special UAV. He flattered himself that the Americans had built it just for him. The noise grew to its loudest—God’s angry voice, calling him out. He laughed. The drone banked. The sound began to dim. “You will go when I tell you,” he said to the man standing near him. The man nodded. He knew he was a decoy, knew even that he was very likely to die. And yet he stood there willingly, prepared to run, prepared to take the drone away. Fool! The sound lessened as the UAV banked toward the farthest edge of its track above. “Now,” whispered Li Han. The man pulled the sc