Dreamland

Dale Brown's Dreamland, Book 1

By: Dale Brown, Jim DeFelice

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Hidden in the Nevada desert is America's most advanced aerospace-weapons-testing facility. Dreamland is the place where the nation's top minds come to develop artillery and aircraft that push beyond the cutting edge. And where the Air Force's top guns come to test them, on the front lines of a new era in warfare.

The fiasco of a spy's infiltration has the Pentagon looking for an excuse to close Dreamland down. To clean up the mess, and save Dreamland from the congressional chopping block, Lt. Colonel Tecumseh "Dog" Bastian is sent in.

He's just the guy to shake things up, and does so when a situation erupts in Somalia. Into a hotter-than-hot war zone, he sends his own daughter, the pilot of a Megafortress bomber, with a high-tech, unmanned flight system that could make or break the future of Dreamland.

©2001 Dale Brown and Jim DeFelice (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Excellent series

I’ve listened to this book and the rest of the series at least 5X and love all the books in the series. This first book is excellent at introducing the characters, and premise for future books.

Great military thriller

First experience with this series- details and action are outstanding. Narrator is the best in the business highly recommend

A lot like Tom Clancy

What did you like best about Dreamland? What did you like least?

If you like Tom Clancy you'll love it. Every weapon is cataloged, no alpha designation get unused.

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

Leave out all the excruciating details of weapons' detailed names and just use the real names of things instead of an alphabet soup of mnemonics. The ABC dropped the Xyz123x12 cartridges into his XXX-23 and fired. What? Seriously does the author think I can or want to remember every alphanumeric he drops?

Which scene was your favorite?

When people were actually talking to one another with something to say.

Any additional comments?

While I normally read Dale Brown easily, this one was difficult. IT was so full of acronyms and technical detailed weaponry descriptions that I wanted to scream. Also his characters were all very macho, even the women. It seemed that the characters were being rushed in and about with no sense of reality or real character. They were all in exactly the right place and time, highly unlikely plotting, all tough guys (and gals) and the enemy were fools. In an attempt to make it seem topical, America is at odds with Iranian Muslims in cahoots with Somali pirates and the heroes (all of them) come to save the day.It channels Tom Clancy with "See Jane Run" characterizations.

great start

having read this series of books, l fully enjoyed listening to the first book of the series. looking forward to book 2

Ok book

The overall book was okay. But the narration was poor hard to tell who was who in the story. Maybe if it was narrated by someone else we could get into it.