I felt like I was piloting some great winged dinosaur, laughing with effortless grace and freedom in three dimensions.īut today I was staying down close to the water to measure exactly how fast I was going. Pushing forward on the throttles created an instantaneous powerful thrust into my back, and pulling back steadily on the control stick arced the jet’s nose up into the eternal blue. The nose cone was now bulbous, which meant the air flowed differently around it, so I was taking it on a test flight over the Chesapeake Bay to recalibrate the speed sensing system. I was flying an F-4 Phantom, a big, heavy jet fighter nicknamed the Double Ugly, with the nose section newly modified to hold reconnaissance cameras. I lost my left eye on a beautiful autumn morning with not a cloud in the sky. Strap in for the ride!” - Gregg Hurwitz, author of Orphan X Read Excerpt “An explosive thriller by a writer who has actually been to space. “Not to be missed.” - Frederick Forsyth, author of The Day of the Jackal I couldn’t put it down.” -James Cameron, writer and director of Avatar and Titanic 'Packed with cosmic action… Featuring undercover spies, scheming Russians and psychopathic murderers, sometimes all at once, it teems with authoritative details.' - The New York Times Strap in and count down for the ride of a lifetime. Chris Hadfield captures the fierce G-forces of launch, the frozen loneliness of space, and the fear of holding on to the outside of a spacecraft orbiting the Earth at 17,000 miles per hour as only someone who has experienced all of these things in real life can. With political stakes stretched to the breaking point, the White House and the Kremlin can only watch as their astronauts collide on the lunar surface, far beyond the reach of law or rescue.įull of the fascinating technical detail that fans of The Martian loved, and reminiscent of the thrilling claustrophobia, twists, and tension of The Hunt for Red October, The Apollo Murders is a high-stakes thriller unlike any other. Intelligence has discovered a secret Soviet space station spying on America, and Apollo 18 may be the only chance to stop it.īut even as Kaz races to keep the NASA crew one step ahead of their Russian rivals, a deadly accident reveals that not everyone involved is quite who they were thought to be. While the mission has been billed as a scientific one, flight controller Kazimieras 'Kaz' Zemeckis knows there is a darker objective. Three astronauts in a tiny spaceship, a quarter million miles from home. 1973: a final, top-secret mission to the Moon. From New York Times bestselling author and astronaut Chris Hadfield comes this exceptional thriller and 'exciting journey' into the dark heart of the Cold War and the space race (Andy Weir, author of The Martian and Project Hail Mary).

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