Delta Green
A deadly battle for world supremacy… a planet poised on the brink of doom… a force that is the Earth’s last hope…
With the development of the world’s greatest fleet of super-stealth fighter craft and a crew of highly skilled pilots to fly them, the US Air Force believes it is invincible.
But that confidence is shattered when the best of their craft, Delta Green, disappears, leaving four dead bodies in its wake.
Certain that it has been hijacked, a team of sky-fighters led by Colonel Kevin “Snake Eyes” McKenna leap into action to prevent the war machine falling into the wrong hands.
Its awesome arsenal of weaponry has the power to bring the earth to the brink of disaster.
Annihilation is imminent unless the technological behemoth is stopped in time.
A battle in space rages as the world balances on the brink of calamity…
First published April 1st 1993
“Mach two-zero, jefe.”
“I’m still with you, Tiger” McKenna said, his eyes performing the automatic cockpit scan. The digital numbers reported the angle of attack at the correct forty degrees, so he figured that, once again, he’d let the computer play commander of the craft. As a pilot who had flown anything from Stearman bipes to F-16 Fighting Falcons and loved them all, the most difficult thing he had learned to do was to let some magic box of silicon take his job away from him.
He had relied on the computer almost four hundred times in this segment of the flight, and the computer had accomplished the leg correctly every time, adjusting controls and length of burn for any variance that cropped up. McKenna couldn’t help thinking that, given the chance, he would be just as accurate. He couldn’t help thinking, either, that if he was just slightly in error, it would be fatal.