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Contents ( 55)
  1. In Memoriam
  2. Epigraph
  3. Cast of Characters
  4. Americans
  5. Russians
  6. Canadian
  7. Prologue
  8. One
  9. Two
  10. Three
  11. Four
  12. Five
  13. Six
  14. Seven
  15. Eight
  16. Nine
  17. Ten
  18. Eleven
  19. Twelve
  20. Thirteen
  21. Fourteen
  22. Fifteen
  23. Sixteen
  24. Seventeen
  25. Eighteen
  26. Nineteen
  27. Twenty
  28. Twenty-One
  29. Twenty-Two
  30. Twenty-Three
  31. Twenty-Four
  32. Twenty-Five
  33. Twenty-Six
  34. Twenty-Seven
  35. Twenty-Eight
  36. Twenty-Nine
  37. Thirty
  38. Thirty-One
  39. Thirty-Two
  40. Thirty-Three
  41. Thirty-Four
  42. Thirty-Five
  43. Thirty-Six
  44. Thirty-Seven
  45. Thirty-Eight
  46. Thirty-Nine
  47. Epilogue
  48. Acknowledgments
  49. Weapons and Acronyms
  50. Weapons
  51. Acronyms
  52. About the Author
  53. Also by Dale Brown
  54. Copyright
  55. About the Publisher

Pavel Voronin smiled modestly. “What else could I have done, once I learned the true extent of Grishin’s crimes?” he said. He sighed. “The old man betrayed us all in the end, every single one of those who trusted him.”

Somberly, the SVR officer nodded. “A nasty business, indeed. President Zhdanov took the news of this treachery on Grishin’s part very badly.”

“Please assure the president that both he and Mother Russia can always count on my loyal service,” Voronin assured him earnestly.

Later, watching the two other Russians depart, Pavel Voronin smiled more genuinely. With a single, simple act, he had freed himself from his unnecessary apprenticeship to Grishin. The oligarch had always been too cautious, too narrow in his thinking. Soon, Voronin thought coldly, he would be able to realize the full extent of his own personal ambitions—a task that would be made considerably easier by the billions of dollars the Americans had so generously and foolishly paid into secret accounts that were now his . . . and his alone. Whistling softly, Voronin turned and walked away from the cliff.

Behind him, in the gathering darkness, Dmitri Grishin’s body floated slowly out to sea.

Acknowledgments

Again, a big Thank-You to Patrick Larkin for his expertise, talent, and support.

Weapons and Acronyms

Weapons

  • AIM-9X—American heat-seeking air-to-air missile
  • AK-12—Russian assault rifle
  • AMRAAM—Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, American radar-guided air-to-air missile
  • AN/APG-77—American advanced aircraft radar system
  • AN/PRC-162—American handheld tactical radio
  • Anza Mk III—Pakistani shoulder-fired antiaircraft missile
  • F-22 Raptor—American fifth-generation fighter aircraft
  • FPS-117—American phased array air surveillance radar
  • HC-130J—American combat search-and-rescue aircraft
  • IL-38—Russian radar-equipped patrol plane
  • IL-78M-90A—Russian aerial refueling aircraft
  • IRBIS-E—Russian advanced passively scanned phased array fighter radar
  • IRST—Infrared Search and Track, Russian passive air detection and tracking system
  • Kamov Ka-60 Kosatka—Russian medium-range troop transport helicopter
  • Korshun-KN-N—Russian long-range aerial search radar
  • Mil Mi-26T2—Russian heavy-lift helicopter
  • RC-135V—American reconnaissance aircraft
  • Tu-95—Russian long-range bomber aircraft
  • Tu-142—Russian long-range reconnaissance aircraft, converted from the Tu-95 bomber
  • Tu-214R—Russian advanced long-range reconnaissance aircraft

Acronyms

  • ACAWS—Advisory, Caution, and Warning System; aircraft systems alerting system
  • ARCC—Alaska Rescue Coordination Center, directs rescue responses in Alaska
  • ARTCC—Air Route Traffic Control Center, American wide-range air traffic control
  • AWACS—Airborne Warning and Control System, American aerial radar system
  • CSAR—Combat Search and Rescue
  • DEFCON—Defense Condition, a series of coordinated actions in response to a military crisis
  • DNI—Director of National Intelligence, American executive in charge of all intelligence agencies
  • ECR—Emergency Conference Room, American Pentagon meeting area
  • ELINT—Electronic Intelligence
  • GRU—Glavnoje Razvedyvatel’noje Upravlenije, Russian military intelligence
  • HUD—Heads-Up Display, a system that displays flight and weapons information so a pilot does not have to look down to read it
  • HUMINT—Human Intelligence
  • JBER—abbreviation for Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, American military installation near Anchorage, Alaska
  • JCS—Joint Chiefs of Staff, the senior uniformed leaders of the six branches of the American military
  • MILES—Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System, a “laser tag” infantry training system
  • NORAD—North American Aerospace Defense Command, the joint American-Canadian command that directs air defense of North America
  • RAOC—Regional Air Operations Center, a U.S. Air Force unit that directs airborne air defense activities
  • RCAF—Royal Canadian Air Force
  • RCS—radar cross-section, a value relating to an object being detected by radar
  • RWR—radar warning receiver, a device that detects and classifies radar energy
  • SecDef—abbreviation for the American secretary of defense
  • SIGINT—Signals Intelligence, the process of obtaining, identifying, and disseminating radio signals
  • SVR—Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service