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Plot Summary of Day of the Cheetah
"Patrick McClanahan is back at Dreamland, this time as a Lieutenant Colonel in charge of the Dreamstar and Cheetah projects. The test pilot of the Dreamstar turns out to be a deep-cover KGB plant, and the plane is stolen. The only aircraft that even has a chance against it is Cheetah, flown by J.C. Powell and McClanahan. The stolen Dreamstar shoots down the second Old Dog project, and this time McClanahan's wife is on board...The chase is on... An action-packed aerial thriller and must-read for all Brown fans..."
Jacob Hurt, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of Day of the Cheetah
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Plot

Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 20%




Spying/Terrorism Thriller Yes
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Search for technology? - special plane

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - pilot, airforce
Age: - 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - spy
Eccentric: Yes - emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - throughout most of the book.
Motive of antagonist - power
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - West
The Americas (not US): Yes
The Americas: - Central
Misc setting - fort/military installation - scientific labs

Style
Part of a series? Yes
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - very gorey descriptions deaths/dead bodies
Sex Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references
A lot of techno jargon? Yes
Kind of jargon? - military technology
Unusual forms of death - perforation--bullets - perforation--swords/knives - exploded into bits
Unusual form of death? Yes
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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