Books like Wings of fire by Dale Brown

A Soviet nuclear submarine marked for defection slips into the Atlantic, sparking a high‑stakes pursuit by the United States and the Soviet Union in this tense Cold War thriller.

Tom Clancy’s thriller *Rainbow Six* follows ex‑Navy SEAL John Clark as he faces an unprecedented terrorist threat that could end life as we know it.

Former Navy SEAL John Kelly, code‑named Mr. Clark, uses his combat skills to seek vengeance and aid a Pentagon mission to rescue POWs from a North Vietnamese camp, confronting deadly enemies both at home and abroad.

In Tom Clancy’s thriller, CIA analyst Jack Ryan devises a plan to end Middle‑East conflict, but a terrorist coup ignites distrust and a looming nuclear crisis that threatens U.S. leadership and global stability.

The riveting story of America's desperate attempt to protect itself from the enemy's advanced technology, with the Old Dog Zero One as the unlikely hope of victory.

A submarine crew tasked with rescuing two Iranian nuclear technicians from a dangerous assignment, but must contend with their own submarine's malfunction.

"In the first two years of the Pacific War of World War II, air forces from Japan, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand engaged in a ruthless struggle for superiority in the skies over the Solomon Islands and New Guinea. Despite operating under primitive conditions in a largely unknown and malignant physical environment, both sides employed the most sophisticated technology available at the time in a strategically crucial war of aerial attrition."--BOOK JACKET. "Utilizing primary sources and scores of interviews with surviving veterans of all ranks and duties, Eric M. Bergerud recreates the fabric of the air war as it was fought in the South Pacific. He explores the technology and tactics, the three-dimensional battlefield, and the leadership, living conditions, medical challenges, and morale of the combatants. The reader will be rewarded with a thorough understanding of how air power functioned in World War II from the level of command to the point of fire in air-to-air combat."--BOOK JACKET.

In 1959, the US Navy converts the USS Cushing into a nuclear‑powered missile sub and sends it into the Arctic to test its 16 missile silos; a lurking Russian sub turns the mission into a tense thriller.

Nine years after the Falklands War, a 2011 geopolitical clash erupts over a secret oil strike, with Britain, Russia, and the United States pulling in elite forces for a high‑stakes battle of naval and covert warfare.

Elite chopper pilot Bobby Autry commands the experimental X‑Battalion of the Special Operations Air Regiment, a daring unit tasked with stopping a North Korean apocalyptic weapon before it rains radioactive fallout on the planet.

A high‑stakes thriller where a B‑52 crew battles Soviet‑influenced mysticism and a looming war over a secret Lithuanian stealth aircraft research facility.

A thriller that follows a CIA analyst as his life becomes entangled with international terrorism and an ultra-left-wing faction of the IRA.

A thrilling military adventure in space and on the ground, Strike Force combines geopolitical intrigue, high-tech weaponry, and a colorful cast of characters.