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Wingman #13
Death Orbit
Aboard the Zon space shuttle where he hopes to capture arch-criminal Viktor Robotov, Wingman Hawk Hunter fears time is running out when war breaks out on the planet below and a comet zooms into the atmosphere. Original.
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First published January 1, 1997
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Mack Maloney
109 books161 followersMack 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
Mack Maloney is the Pen name for BRIAN KELLEHER
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June 5, 2020
Death Orbit is the thirteenth book in the Men's Adventure series featuring Hawk Hunter and his friends in an ongoing post-apocalyptic world told with broad and bold pulp flourishes and influences. This one continues the tendency of edging towards science fiction and a little away from the straight military adventure that was first noted in the preceding volume, Target: Point Zero. The books all feature larger-than-life characters facing overwhelming odds with implausible aircraft and weapons, but they're well told and well paced good-hearted adventures, so captivating that it's no problem to ignore the silly sections. It's good escape fiction in the proud pulp tradition.
April 14, 2023
Our heroes led by Hawk Hunter are now in space to track down Viktor II, another arch super criminal who has sent the Asian Mercenary Cult and the Fourth Reich. The villain has taken refuge in a space station, initially thought to be the Mir station.
Meanwhile, the United Americans and others on Earth are experiencing weird, almost paranormal/supernatural phenomena. This is where the author takes a hard left and we the readers are holding on, wondering what will happens next.
1. He recreated Flight 19 which was presumably lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
2. He brought the USS Cyclops out of the Bermuda Triangle.
3. There is the "more dead cosmonauts" theory - the idea that the Soviet Union's space program hid more of their failures than originally reported.
4. He created the Cuban Missile Crisis of sorts.
Those are a few plot twists which often remain unresolved. In fact, they were never resolved. I am not going to say more but there are other elements that are more clichés and tropes.
Meanwhile, the United Americans and others on Earth are experiencing weird, almost paranormal/supernatural phenomena. This is where the author takes a hard left and we the readers are holding on, wondering what will happens next.
1. He recreated Flight 19 which was presumably lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
2. He brought the USS Cyclops out of the Bermuda Triangle.
3. There is the "more dead cosmonauts" theory - the idea that the Soviet Union's space program hid more of their failures than originally reported.
4. He created the Cuban Missile Crisis of sorts.
Those are a few plot twists which often remain unresolved. In fact, they were never resolved. I am not going to say more but there are other elements that are more clichés and tropes.
May 10, 2015
Rated this book 3 1/2 stars. While this 13th book in the Wingman series might be losing some steam, it is still intriguing enough to want to finish and see where it all ends up.
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