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The United States has just launched the most powerful weapon in history – a missilelaunching satellite called "Thor's Hammer" that can strike anywhere on the planet in seconds. The world's other major superpowers, Russia and China, are rocked by America 's development, and they scramble to respond by gaining control of the seas.But when terrorists hijack Pakistani missiles and fire them at Indian cities, U.S. President Joseph Gardner has only one option – to use the untested Thor's Hammer. But when something goes awry, Pakistan decides to give China naval strategic advantage by granting access to Middle Eastern ports.To make matters worse, Somali pirates board a Chinese freighter and slaughter the crew. China responds by brutally attacking and then occupying Somalia, quickly setting up missile pads that can target U.S. Naval ships. Now the U.S. high command is on red alert and the country's security is in total jeopardy…Another flash point quickly emerges – in Earth's orbit. When Chinese and Russian spacecraft surround an American space station, the threat is clear: negotiate and compromise, or China and Russia will cripple the U.S. Navy with ballistic missiles. Will the world's superpowers be plunged into a full-scale war?With Executive Intent, the New York Times bestselling master thriller-writer Dale Brown crafts an action-packed tale of intrigue and technological weaponry that pits the world's superpowers in a contest for Earth's oceans and ultimate high ground – space.

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<p>Dale Brown</p><empty-line></empty-line><p>Executive Intent</p>

Book 16 in the Patrick McLanahan series, 2010

This novel is dedicated to my hardworking family,

who refuse to give in even during tough economic

and personal times.

Remember Always the Family.

<p>CAST OF CHARACTERS</p>

JOSEPH GARDNER, President of the United States

KENNETH PHOENIX, Vice President

WALTER KORDUS, White House Chief of Staff

STACY ANNE BARBEAU, Secretary of State

MARCUS COLBY, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

DAVID C. KEELEY, Deputy Secretary of State for Asia

DEBORAH A. CARLSON, Assistant Secretary of State for Chinese Affairs

CONRAD CARLYLE, President’s National Security Adviser

MILLER TURNER, Secretary of Defense

GERALD VISTA, Director of National Intelligence

SALAZAR “SAL” BANDERAS, Secretary of the Air Force

ANN PAGE, Deputy Undersecretary of the Air Force for Space

TIMOTHY DOBSON, Assistant Deputy Director for Strategic Program Research, Central Intelligence Agency

ANNETTE DOUGLASS, Assistant Deputy Secretary of State

GENERAL TAYLOR J. BAIN, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

ADMIRAL BENJAMIN KELLY, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

GENERAL CHARLES HUFFMAN, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff

USN ADMIRAL RICHARD COWAN, Chief of Naval Operations

USAF GENERAL ROBERT WIEHL, Commander, U.S. Space Command and USAF Space Command

U.S. NAVY ADMIRAL SHERMAN HUDDY, Commander, U.S. Strategic Command

U.S. ARMY GENERAL THOMAS GREENE, Commander, U.S. Africa Command

COMMAND SERGEANT MAJOR FRANK NAUERT, NCOIC, U.S. Africa Command

U.S. AIR FORCE LIEUTENANT GENERAL PATRICK MCLANAHAN (RET.)

BRIGADIER GENERAL KAI RAYDON, Commander, U.S. Space Defense Force, Armstrong Space Station

U.S. ARMY COLONEL ALAN CAMEROTA, Substitute Space-Station Commander

U.S. AIR FORCE COLONEL GIA “BOXER” CAZZOTTO, Commander, 7th Expeditionary Bomb Wing, EB-1C Vampire-Bomber Aircraft Commander

WAYNE “WHACK” MACOMBER, “Tin Man” Commando and Cybernetic Infantry Device (CID) Pilot

U.S. ARMY RESERVE LIEUTENANT COLONEL JASON RICHTER, Commander, U.S. Army Infantry Transformational Battlelab, Fort Polk, Louisiana; CID Engineer and Pilot

CHARLIE TURLOCK, CID Pilot

U.S. AIR FORCE MAJOR ALAN “FRODO” FRIEL, EB-1C Vampire-Bomber Mission Commander

U.S. NAVY COMMANDER SCOTT BREAM, XS-19 Midnight Spaceplane Pilot

AIR FORCE MAJOR DANA COLWIN, XS-19 Midnight Spaceplane Pilot

MARINE CORPS MAJOR JESSICA “GONZO” FAULKNER, Spaceplane Pilot

U.S. AIR FORCE FIRST LIEUTENANT JEFFREY MCCALLUM, Spacecraft Electronics Technician

U.S. AIR FORCE SENIOR MASTER SERGEANT VALERIE “SEEKER” LUKAS, Senior Noncommissioned Officer of Armstrong Space Station

PETTY OFFICER PAUL MALKIN, Rescue Swimmer, USS Rourke

JONATHAN COLIN MASTERS, Chief Engineer, Sky Masters Inc.

HUNTER “BOOMER” NOBLE, Vice President of Engineering, Sky Masters Inc.; S-9 Black Stallion and XS-19 Midnight Spaceplane Pilot

PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

ZHOU QIANG, Premier of the People’s Republic of China

TANG ZHAOXING, Minister of Foreign Affairs

ZUNG CHUNXIAN, Minister of National Defense

GENERAL HUA ZHILUN, Commander of 11th Strategic Rocket Forces, People’s Liberation Army Air Forces

LI JIANZHU, Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations

RUSSIAN FEDERATION

IGOR TRUZNYEV, President of the Russian Federation

AIR FORCES GENERAL ANDREI DARZOV, Chief of Staff of the Russian Defense Forces

BORIS TARZOV, Russian Ambassador to the United Nations

PAKISTANIS

AMANULLAH MAZAR, President of Pakistan

INDIANS

SHANTOSH PAWAR, Prime Minister of India

BRAZILIANS

ERNESTO NASCIMENTO, Brazilian Ambassador to the United Nations and Temporary Chairman of the U.N. Security Council

YEMENIS

SALAM AL-JUFRI, Employee of Yemeni Fish Company Limited

<p>WEAPONS</p>

AESA-Active Electronically Scanned Array, a radar system that uses pulsed radar beams instead of a mechanically moving antenna to search the sky

AIM-9 Sidewinder-American heat-seeking air-to-air missile

AIM-120 AMRAAM-American Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, radar-guided air-to-air missile

AL-52 Dragon-a B-52 bomber modified to carry an antiballistic-missile laser

AN/FPS/79-space tracking radar

AN/SPY-1-advanced shipborne air and space control radar

APG-79-fire control radar aboard the American F/A-18 Hornet fighter

AS-17 Krypton-Russian hypersonic air-launched attack missile

AWACS-Airborne Warning and Control System, an aircraft-based radar system used to track air and sea targets

BAMS-Broad Area Maritime Surveillance, a U.S. Navy program to use long-range unmanned aircraft for surveillance near a naval battle group

C-802-Chinese ship-or shore-launched antiship or land-attack missile

COIL-Chlorine-Oxygen-Iodine Laser, a system that uses a chemical reaction to produce laser light

Dong Feng-21 (DF-21)-Chinese submarine-or land-based mobile surface-to-surface solid-fuel rocket

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