The Tin Man

The Barnes & Noble Review
In his ten New York Times bestselling novels, Dale Brown has pitted men and technology against impossible odds, in stories so vivid and authentic you feel part of the action. Now the undisputed master of military suspense brings back aerial combat expert Patrick McLanahan — this time at the center of an undeclared war exploding on the streets of America. Some call him a terrorist. Others call him a vigilante hero. Dressed in carbon-filament stronger-than-steel protective armor, a mysterious figure the public has dubbed the Tin Man roams the urban landscape of Sacramento, California, on a search-and-destroy mission. Some want him dead, but others want the truth of who he is.

He's Patrick McLanahan, the nation's most heroic aerial warrior, now retired, who for 15 years risked his life for his country in the U.S. military. He is the civilian director of scientific development for a high-tech company specializing in strategic devices for the armed forces, his workplace the laboratory, not the cockpit. But when his rookie-cop brother is injured in a shootout following a bank robbery, McLanahan becomes a one-man army. The enemy is within, on the streets of his own country, and he is the avenger. His targets are international terrorist turned drug lord Gregory Townsend and his Aryan Brigade, who are masterminding the violence taking over the city.

Townsend and the Brigade, out to destroy government authority in pursuit of their racist ideology, fear nothing. But there's one thing they haven't counted on.

The Tin Man.

Wherever he goes, McLanahan's swift andviolentjustice overpowers the enemy — but at a price. Innocent lives are put in jeopardy whenever he appears, because the police lose tactical control. The more he tests the limits of his technological power — and his courage — the more he is forced to face the implications of what he is doing. Has his passion for revenge taken him over the line? Is his personal war part of the solution to the violent crime sweeping the country, or is it part of the problem?

In Patrick McLanahan, a patriot become renegade, Dale Brown has given us a hero who must ultimately decide between his own ability to single-handedly take on the forces of violence and the power of established laws to secure a peaceful society. Authoritative in its descriptions of cutting-edge technology and dazzling in its portrayal of life on the streets of America's cities, THE TIN MAN is a novel of consummate suspense.