Tiger's Claw

A pretty weak effort when all was said and done. Started out well, with China flexing its muscles in the South China Sea, which it claims as sovereign territory from many centuries ago. The military leadership asserts itself, using its newfound weapons on U.S. and local foes. Meanwhile, the U.S. has......more

I learned a lot about the South China Sea.......more

As always, when I give a less than stellar review, I like to explain. I’m not here to poop on anyone’s hard work. To be fair, this isn’t my usual kind of book. I thought maybe it would grip me anyways, because lots of books seem to be able to transcend their genre and appeal to many readers. This wa......more

Dale Brown, the author of the stellar novels Flight of the Old Dog and Hammerheads, has really started to fade. Tiger's Claw is a perfect example of a series gone on for too long, the characters are tired and the plot series is just stretching too far. Patrick McLanahan has been through more than man......more

Tiger’s Claw by Dale Brown Dale Brown plucks his plots out of newspaper headlines. This thriller postulates China as our new deadly foe. Obviously that is not much of a fictional stretch. One of the subtleties of Brown’s books is the need to read between the lines. The book points out that with the i......more