Continuing with one of my favorite authors, Warrior Class is the next in the series by Dale Brown.  In my last post I described the series as "stories of near-future geopolitical conflicts with an emphasis on air-power.  What's not to love?"  Well, unfortunately, in this book we find out.

Warrior Class returns us to the modern political arena, only with the increasingly divergent stories with larger than life events, it's hard to say it's the modern world so much as an alternate history anymore.  And that's great, really.  A new isolationist president has been elected with little foreign policy experience and starts a policy of removing all U.S. presence around the world and slashing military budgets.  (Sounds like a certain candidate running now that scares the crap out of me....)  A Russian mafia boss takes the opportunity to make a buck in the Baltics and poor General MacLanahan must do something.

I was disappointed with this book.  Is this really the same Dale Brown that wrote Flight of the Old Dog and Night of the Hawk?  I will be giving the series a rest for a while, partly because I have a whole lot of other books to read.  Hopefully, the next in the series will get back to the solid writing I have come to enjoy.