
Category: Adults, Bestsellers, Mystery
Language: EnglishKeywords: Apollo Murders
Written by Chris Hadfield
Read by Ray Porter
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged
From the author of the international bestselling thriller The Apollo Murders: a supersonic hunt for a shadowy Soviet defector known only as âGriefâ.
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 belowâ¦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 âGriefâ has the technical ability, and now the opportunity, to gain access to the treasures of the Nevada Test Range â either a prototype stealth fighter or the NERVA nuclear rocket engine. Or both.
For Chris Hadfieldâs second heart-stopping thriller, we move from Space to another rich and exciting part of Chrisâs 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 âan explosive thriller by a writer who has actually been to space and backâ, here we have a matchless thriller and the nerve-shredding rush of aerial combat, as told by one of the worldâs top fighter pilots.
From the author of the international bestselling thriller The Apollo Murders: a supersonic hunt for a shadowy Soviet defector known only as âGriefâ.
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 belowâ¦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 âGriefâ has the technical ability, and now the opportunity, to gain access to the treasures of the Nevada Test Range â either a prototype stealth fighter or the NERVA nuclear rocket engine. Or both.
For Chris Hadfieldâs second heart-stopping thriller, we move from Space to another rich and exciting part of Chrisâs 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 âan explosive thriller by a writer who has actually been to space and backâ, here we have a matchless thriller and the nerve-shredding rush of aerial combat, as told by one of the worldâs top fighter pilots.