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A full throttle, adrenaline-laced espionage page-turner . . . Get 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 characters - what more could you want from a thriller?' Steve Berry, New York Times
bestselling author of The 9th Man
and the Cotton Malone seriesIsrael, 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. NASA Flight Controller and former US Navy test pilot Kaz Zemeckis watches the scene from the ground - and 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 must tread a careful line between trust and suspicion. Ultimately, he must invite the fox into the henhouse - bringing the defector into the heart of the United States' most secret test site - and hope that, with skill and cunning, the game plays out his way.
For Chris Hadfield's second heart-stopping thriller, we move from Space to another rich and exciting part of Chris's 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 world's best fighter pilots.Praise for The Apollo Murders '
A nail-biting Cold War thriller' James Cameron
'An
exciting journey to an alternate past' Andy Weir
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Not to be missed' Frederick Forsyth
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Explosive' Gregg Hurwitz
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Exciting, authentic' Linwood Barclay
Industry Reviews
PRAISE FOR CHRIS HADFIELD: 'Commander Hadfield takes us on an exciting journey into an alternate past' - Andy Weir, author of The Martian, on THE APOLLO MURDERS
There's maybe
one person on Earth with the writing chops and the expertise
to write a to-the-Moon
thriller this exciting, this authentic. Chris Hadfield is that guy - Linwood Barclay, New York Times bestselling author of Find You First, on THE APOLLO MURDERS
Even in fiction there is authenticity. It is either there . . . or it is not. With Chris Hadfield it is, because
everything he describes he has really seen - Frederick Forsyth, New York Times bestselling author of The Day of the Jackal and The Fox
Hadfield's bona fides are unimpeachable - Chris Holm, author of The Killing Kind
A terrific counterfactual thriller . . . an adroitly handled blend of twists and Cold War politics - The Times
