The Final Storm

Wingman #6

by Mack Maloney

Hawk "The Wingman" Hunter strives to rebuild the devastated lands of America after a nuclear war, while the Evil Empire is scheming to destroy the Free World, and armed with a supersonic swing-wing bomber, Hawk sets out to annihilate the enemy. Reprint.

Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction

352 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1989

About the author

Mack Maloney is the author of numerous fiction series, including Wingman, ChopperOps, Starhawk, and Pirate Hunters, as well as UFOs in Wartime – What They Didn’t Want You to Know. A native Bostonian, Maloney received a bachelor of science degree in journalism at Suffolk University and a master of arts degree in film at Emerson College. He is the host of a national radio show, Mack Maloney’s Military X-Files. Visit him on Facebook and at www.mackmaloney.com.

Mack Maloney is the Pen name for BRIAN KELLEHER

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the sixth volume in the pulp-serial Wingman accurately published as men's adventures. Hawk Hunter, the intrepid aero-space-age-cowboy, flies impossible missions in impossible machines against impossible evil odds. They're breakneck-paced page-turning adventures, fun from first to last. Keep 'em flying!

[Chad Martin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mack Maloney’s Wingman’s series is always a fun read. The dog fights are awesome and take me back to the days of when I watched Top Gun and Iron Eagle and wanted to be a fighter pilot.
Hunter is an unbeatable man in the sky and so you know that the book will end well but that doesn’t mean its not a fun experience to get there. I have been reading these books since I was a teenage and they always put a smile on my face.
I enjoy reading these between heavier material and to get a nice escape from work. I always look forward to the next one and can wait to see what Hunter gets himself into and how he will save the world in the next one.

[Les Mangis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great book. These are fun to just read and let your imagination run wild!

[Kenneth Bratton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reading the series again

I really enjoyed this series when I was more younger and wanted to get it again in e-book and I still love it

[James Williams]

I need to know the last book of it

[Justin · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a book where the author is torn between ending the series altogether or starting a new thread in his next book. On the one hand, the final scenes is the last shot of the "Big War" / World War III fought in 1987. On the other hand, the author foreshadows what will happen in the next book or the book or books after that while closing one plot thread.

Meanwhile, the middle portion of the book is a massive recap of what happened BEFORE book 1. It shows WW3 from Hawk Hunter's perspective. How the West almost won by destroying the Soviet resupply columns; how they were betrayed by the Vice President of the United States, all plot points mentioned repeatedly in the previous five books.

You get the impression up to 60% of the way that this might be the last book. You would be wrong since there are books 7, 8, and 9, all the way to 22. If you want to stick with this series, go for it, but just remember this is alternate history. Even as the author writes AFTER the fall of the Soviet Union, the rise of the Internet, 9/11, the Global War on Terror, and Vladimir Putin, he has to ignore all of them to extrapolate a world that "ended" in 1987.

I read this book literally 10 years ago, if my Goodreads dates are correct. I forgot a lot the last time I read it.

[Dave · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rated this book a solid 4 stars. I have enjoyed the Wingman series to date and look forward to continuing reads in this series. While I can say some of the storyline is a bit far fetched, another part of me says it is possible considering the many difficulties in the world today. Reading a book is not necessarily reality as it is what ones imagination can conjure up or picture.

[Earl Wertheim]

Great volume

follows action of the first five volumes. very action packed. hard to put down. author is very prolific. must read.