Habu Patch

Some years ago, the US. Air Force officially suspended flight operations of its Lockheed SR-71 (Strategic Reconnaissance) Blackbird aircraft. At that time, the USAF began the progressive phasing out of the approximately twenty-five SR-71s which had been operational up to that time. HABU PATCH... Catch this plane if you can. Apart from two SR-71s detached to forward observation bases at Kadena, Japan and Mildenhall, England, the rest of the fleet of Blackbirds was mothballed, and TR1 and U2 reconnaissance aircraft deployed in those few instances where satellite reconnaissance was deemed unsuitable to the mission role. HABU PATCH... Danger rides the skies over Russian airspace as a last-ditch military action takes place below. The stakes have never been higher. No one has written a technothriller about the legendary SR-71 Blackbird quite this powerful or quite this good. The proliferation of satellite-based, high definition surveillance platforms in polar and geosynchronous orbits, combined with the extremely high costs of operating and maintaining the Blackbird fleet were cited by the Air Force as making the SR-71 redundant for the purposes of strategic reconnaissance. HABU PATCH... Habu Patch is raw-edged excitement ... David Alexander makes the SR-71 stand on its tail and do tricks. HABU PATCH... A breathtaking achievement by author David Alexander featuring high-adrenaline excitement from cover to cover. The SR-71 Blackbird is unquestionably one of the most mission capable aircraft ever flown, and in an era of increasing geopolitical instability, the many reports of its demise have often proven to be premature. HABU PATCH... The sky's no limit for this exceptional mega-thriller from one of the top authors in the field. Habu Patch tells the fictionalized story of a secret operation that saw one of those SRs taken out of mothballs and flown on a clandestine mission that can only be told as a novel.