Dale Brown, Jim DeFelice Satan's Tail

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As extremist Islamic pirates, armed and supported by a powerful Saudi terrorist, prey on civilian vessels in the Gulf of Aden, America aggressively answers with serious muscle a next-generation littoral warship with a full range of automated weapons systems that the enemy has dubbed Satans Tail. However, unforeseen technological problems, combined with the suicidal tendencies of a fanatical foe, mean support is needed from above and a pair of Dreamlands awesome Megafortresses and their Flighthawk escorts are dispatched to the war zone. But bitter professional rivalries threaten to damage, perhaps even destroy, the mission, as a vengeful opponent takes advantage of the disruption to strengthen his outlaw navy and set its sights horrifically highraising the stakes in a battle the U.S. and the world simply cannot afford to lose.