The Omega Missile

A tremendous read! If you want a good, easy-reading technothriller which does not bog itself down in too much technical details and too much politics(re: Clancy's later novels), and you like military action then this book is for you! A disgruntled ex-Special Forces operative, with the assistance of former disgraced Canadian paratroopers and a dying scientist take control of The Omega Missile, a satellite designed to launch every nuclear weapon the US has, automatically, and it is up to the former partner of the villian(on a covert Middle Eastern mission which was aborted) to stop them.Intense action, interesting politics and a non-stop pace that races along like a fighter plane at full boost!

From the beginning to the end, this novel rocked. Plenty of political intrigue in the background to keep up the pace with the action.

Lots of action, lots of intrigue. Kind of scary when you think that this weapon system is real-- that it actually sits in a silo in our country.

That was part of the cover blurb by Stephen Coonts and I have to agree with him. This book was a heck of a ride. You like thrillers, you'll like THE OMEGA MISSILE. I tracked down the author (Dalton is a pen name) and it's Bob Mayer who wrote the Riley Special Forces series which I also enjoyed greatly. He's also written the AREA 51 series under the name Doherty. Don't know when this guy sleeps. He's also written two other thrillers under the name Bob McGuire which are intriguing as far as their story premises: THE LINE about a coup by a cabal of West Pointers and THE GATE about the present day results of the WWII Japanese atomic bomb program. All of them are good thrillers.

Really liked this book. Looked up Joe Dalton and found its a pen name for Bob Mayer who wrote the Riley Special Forces books which I also loved. He's a former Green Beret who I knew here at Bragg. You want action-- read this.