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A full throttle, adrenaline-laced espionage page-turnerGet ready to blast off and enjoy the ride!Jack Carr, former Navy SEAL Sniper and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the James Reece Terminal List series
Continuous action, Mach-speed mayhem, sharp intrigue, and well-rounded characterswhat more could you want from a thriller?Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The 9th Man and the Cotton Malone series
From the author of the #1 bestselling thriller The Apollo Murders comes the supersonic hunt for a shadowy Soviet defector.
Israel,October1973. 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 belowand promptly disappears.
NASA Flight Controller and former top US test pilot Kaz Zemeckis watches the scene from the groundand is quickly pulled into a dizzying, high-stakes game of spies, lies and a possible high-level defection that plays out across three continents.
The prize is beyond value: the secrets of the Soviets mythical Foxbat MiG-25, the fastest, highest-flying fighter plane in the world and the key to Cold War air supremacy. But every defection is double-edged with risk, and Kaz needs to tread a careful line between trust and suspicion. Ultimately, he must invite the fox into the henhousebringing the defector into the heart of the United States most secret test siteand hope that, with skill and cunning, the game plays out his way.
For Chris Hadfields secondheart-stoppingthriller, we move from Space to another rich and exciting part of Chriss CV: his time as a top test pilot in both the US Air Force and the US Navy, and as an RCAF fighter pilot intercepting armed Soviet bombers in North American airspace. Full of insider detail, excitement and political intrigue drawn from real events, The Defector brings us the nerve-shredding rush of aerial combat, as told by one of the worlds top fighter pilots.
