Description
Israel, late 1973. As the Yom Kippur War flares into life, a state-of-the-art Soviet MIG fighter is racing at breakneck speed over the arid scrublands below . . . and promptly disappears. It soon becomes clear to Israeli intelligence that the pilot is a defector, desperate to come over to the US side. Houston Flight Controller and former test pilot Kaz Zemeckis is charged with bringing the pilot and his plane to the highly secret Area 51, in the Nevada desert. But every defection carries with it a risk. It soon becomes clear that 'Grief' has the technical ability, and now the opportunity, to gain access to the treasures of the Nevada Test Range - either a prototype stealth fighter or the NERVA nuclear rocket engine. Or both. For Chris Hadfield's second heart-stopping thriller, we move from Space to another rich and exciting part of Chris's professional CV: his time as the top test pilot in both the US Air Force and the US Navy, and as a Cold War pilot intercepting armed Soviet bombers in North American airspace. Just as Gregg Hurwitz called The Apollo Murders 'an explosive thriller by a writer who has actually been to space and back', here we have a matchless thriller and the nerve-shredding rush of aerial combat, as told by one of the world's top fighter pilots.
| EAN: | 9781529423136 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 29.08.2024 |
| Titel der Reihe: | The Apollo Murders Series#2# |
| Autoren: | Hadfield, Chris |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 368 |
| Themenüberschrift: | FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense |
| Keyword: | adventure thriller; gripping action thriller; aviation; action and adventure aviation; top gun maverick; thrilling blockbuster adventure read; gregg hurwitz; andy weir; falling t. j. newman; james patterson; lee child; summer reads for men; historical adventure crime thriller; Cold War politics; double agent spy thriller; tim peake; fathers day; political thrillers; spies; fighter pilots; USAF; RAF; historical combat; twisters |
| Fachschema: | Amerikanische Belletristik / Kriminalroman~Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Kriminalroman, Thriller~Siebziger Jahre / Roman, Erzählung |
| Fachkategorie: | Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch~Thriller / Spannung~Science-Fiction: Weltraumerforschung~Historischer Roman~Kriminalromane und Mystery |
| Länge: | 191 mm |
| Breite: | 127 mm |
| Höhe: | 28 mm |
| Gewicht: | 258 gr |