( 5 reviews )
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Posted: May 28 2007
When I saw the paperback I checked my library which holds all of Dale Brown's work and I did not find it, so I bought it. As I read the book I soon relized I had read it before. I still read the book (again) and once more enjoyed it. If you like Dale Brown, Strike Zone is up to his normal standard. The theme is the tension between Taiwan and mainland China and the desire by some to start a war between China and the USA, which would leave China in a weakend or defeated state. China is not able to take Taiwan by force, especially with USA backing. Taiwan is not strong enough to take China in open warfare, but if the right people had the funding, and some nukes, and the right delivery system, and China were beat down by a war with the USA, that could kill a lot of people and upset the balance of power and bring down China. Of course, Dreamland gets the task of finding out what is going on, and then stopping it. It is no easy task for Dreamland and it is not without cost, but of course Dreamland saves the world again. My only disappointment is that I can't find my original copy of Strike Zone, which is most likely a hard cover book.
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Posted: Apr 21 2005
Dale Brown and Jim DeFelice did it again with Dreamland: Strike Zone. This is an excellent read for those of you out there that are Dale Brown fans. The continuation of the storyline along with it being an independent novel makes it a great all around book for any reader. Because of the novels independence, someone that hasn't read any of the books in the Dreamland series will be able to understand and follow the storyline that has been laid out. This series and others by Dale Brown was what made me interested in the war/technology/current event novels. Since then I have become hooked to them.
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( 3 of 3 found this review helpful ) Posted: Mar 18 2004
Although I have never been a fan of the double author book idea, Dale and Jim seem to have a good thing going here. Strike Zone continues the main characters as they continue to provide the President with options without an all out war. The story opens up slower than the other novels in this series, but as always, the action scenes are fantastic. As a first reader, this one would hold it's own, and if you have the others in the series, it's a MUST HAVE.
