Day of the Cheetah (Patrick McLanahan #4) by Dale Brown

In one of his boldest bestsellers, Dale Brown creates a shattering scenario of the ultimate race for technology...America's most advanced fighter plane, "DreamStar, " has been hijacked. To retrieve it, Lt. Col. Patrick McLanahan takes on his most daring assignment since "The Flight of the Old Dog."

The odds are against him. His plane, the "Cheetah, " is less advanced than "DreamStar." And so begins the greatest high-flying chase of all time...