Broken Eagle

by Robert Tine

After dropping nuclear bombs on Russia during World War III, six American fliers crash land in the Soviet heartland and must survive the seventeen-hundred-mile journey to Alaska's border on foot

Genres: Military Fiction, Thriller, Adventure

230 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

Reviews

[Frederick Tan · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good read.

[DoctorM · Rating 3 out of 5]

a long-forgotten pulp action novel that's surprisingly good, a remnant of the mid-1980s and the last of the Cold War. "Broken Eagle" imagines a limited nuclear exchange between the US and the USSR. In the midst of the brief war, a B-52 is shot down over Siberia, and its crew escapes. The novel follows them as try to escape to China, pursued by the KGB and the Soviet military, who hope to try them for war crimes. Not a bad account of survival and evasion techniques, and certainly good enough to be filmed.