Wingman 3-Lucifer Crusade

by Mack Maloney

Book Overview

The bloody Circle War for control of America's West is over and the Russian invaders defeated--for now. But Viktor Robotov, the depraved terrorist who orchestrated the unspeakable carnage, has escaped unharmed. Hawk Hunter, the Wingman, is determined to bring Robotov to justice--or die trying.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821722328
• ISBN13: 9780821722329
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Zebra Books
• Length: 413 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

A great book for everyone

Hey, i read The Lucifer Crusade 3 years ago. I began reading it and was immedietally captivated by Mack Maloneys great writing style. He takes things and puts them into situations which you will never expect. Then when i finished the book, i stoped reading the Wingman series. Last year or so, i came upon the book and decided to buy the first few. After reading the first 2 books and then The Lucifer Crusade again, i was able to further understand the book. I loved it even more. Now i am continuing to read the series. Still however, so far i think that the Lucifer Crusade is easily one of the best if not the best wingman book. I would HIGHLY reccomend it to anyone interested in reading about cool airplanes, awesome battles which last for pages and pages, and hot love scenes. This book had everything. As you see, i give it 5 stars (although it deserves 100). If you are feeling like taking a chance, get messy, grab the Lucifer Crusade and have the best time of your life reading. I hope this helps you find what you are looking for.

Lots of action and intrigue

This is the third book in the Wingman series and it is right up there with the best of them. Lots of flying, lots of action, weirdness, sex, ghosts ... you name it. I realized about halfway through that this book, in a way, prophesized the Persian Gulf War. (It was written about a year before.) A lot of fun and awelcome change from more stuffy books of the action-adventure genre.

Action Packed

I liked the book a lot. I've only read four of the series, but I'm hooked on them anyway. If you like action packed novels that leave you wanting to find out what will happen next, then read this book. It will make you mad, glad, and leave you satisfied. A great book.

The only Wingman novel I ever read

Hawk Hunter was once a captain in the United States Air Force when the Soviet Union attacked and created a radioactive wasteland from Oklahoma to the Dakotas called the Wasteland. After World War III ended with an unjust peace treaty signed by a traitorous vice president, the Soviet Union splits the country in two creating the Circle in the east. The West Coast becomes Pacific Amermica. Hawk Hunter's now an officer in the Pacific American Air Force. As the book opens, two mercenary pilots from an outfit called the Ace Wrecking Crew, one of whom is named Elvis, find a man tied up in the hot sun of the Azores, the site of a former American base, and he's left to die by two of Lucifer's henchmen. Hunter then heads to Casablanca, a city built on a movie set. He meets with an arms smuggler named Lord Lard. He also meets another man who says he's joining the fight against Lucifer. Lucifer had put a price on Hunter's head and eveyone in this new world is out to collect the reward. Hunter soon meets the British members of the Gibralter Defense Force, former RAF pilots who tell him that World War III never really ended. The book reaches its climax when Hunter and Lucifer confront each other in the Rhub-al-Khali. Huter wants to bring Lucifer, whose real name is Viktor Robotov, a Soviet agent who created the Circle and started the Circle War. Hunter wants to bring Viktor back to the United States to stand trial as a war criminal but he's killed by Nazis. Elvis and his partner call him. He asks about the people from the carrier that they'd salvaged to stop Lucifer from breaking out into the Mediterranean. They say they didn't survive.