HABU PATCH

It's the year 1992, the end of the Cold War. Yet danger rides the skies over Russian airspace as a last-ditch military action takes place below. The stakes have never been higher as reactionary forces, led by a powerful rogue general, prepare a counter-coup to oust President Boris Yeltsin from power and make the red flag, emblazoned with hammer and sickle, again fly above the Kremlin.

War and peace hinge upon the successful completion of a reconnaissance mission conducted by a veteran US pilot and a legendary spy plane, the SR-71 Blackbird. Both plane and pilot have been taken out of mothballs and it's expected that neither will make it back. The same goes for a last-minute addition to the crew of the two-seater aircraft, a young woman pilot who, though gung-ho, is ever bit as green as the pilot is seasoned.

Habu Patch is a breathtaking achievement by author David Alexander featuring high-adrenaline excitement from cover to cover. No one has written a technothriller about the legendary SR-71 Blackbird quite this powerful or quite this good. Habu Patch is raw-edged excitement ... David Alexander makes the SR-71 stand on its tail and do tricks. The sky's no limit for this exceptional mega-thriller from one of the top authors in the field.