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"A full throttle, adrenaline-laced espionage page-turner . . . Get ready to blast off and enjoy the ride!"âJack Carr, former Navy SEAL Sniper and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the James Reece Terminal List series
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From the author of the #1 bestselling thriller The Apollo Murders comes the supersonic hunt for a shadowy Soviet defector.
Israel, October 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 top US test pilot Kaz Zemeckis watches the scene from the groundâand 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 Sovietsâ mythical âFoxbatâ 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 henhouseâbringing the defector into the heart of the United Statesâ most secret test siteâand hope that, with skill and cunning, the game plays out his way.
For Chris Hadfieldâs second heart-stopping thriller, we move from Space to another rich and exciting part of Chrisâs 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 top fighter pilots.
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Publisher : Random House of Canada
Author : Hadfield, Chris
Language : English
Published :2023-10-10
Number Of Pages : 368
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 1039005403
ISBN-13 : 9781039005402
Item weight : 1.32 lb
Dimensions : 1.26 in x 6.46 in x 9.37 in
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