AN INTERNATIONAL CADRE OF MERCENARIES DOES THE UNTHINKABLE--HIJACKS
THE ISS AND HOLDS THE WORLD HOSTAGE IN A BLAZING NEAR-FUTURE
TECHNOTHRILLER FROM TRAVIS S. TAYLOR
Don't mess with our astronauts!
A Russian ICBM site is attacked just north of the Ukraine boarder. The
nuclear warheads are missing! A Special Operations and Intelligence
Community Task Force is rapidly put together to respond, but where it
should deploy is unclear. A fire ravages a cosmonaut training facility
in which five spacesuits disappear. And the Task Force finds a cache of
detailed schematics of highly complex rocketry systems.The Task Forces
reaches out to Dr. Amy Sue Harrington of the Missiles and Space
Intelligence Center in Huntsville, Alabama. To Dr. Harrington, it all
adds up to the unthinkable: someone--someone extremely well-funded--is
taking aim at the International Space Station.
But Colonel Vladimir Lytokov and his team of mercenaries aren't planning
to bring the ISS crashing to Earth. They're taking the fight to orbit,
boarding the station and hijacking it. As the ISS traces its path across
the heavens, Lytokov rains down destruction from above, effectively
holding the entire globe hostage.
With all the rockets capable of reaching the ISS currently out of
commission, the terrorists are untouchable in their orbital perch. But
Lytokov and his men have overlooked one crucial aspect of their
intricate plan: that astronaut Major Allison Simms is on board the
ISS--and you don't mess with American astronauts! But can one astronaut
hold out until the Task Force can come to the rescue?
About Travis S. Taylor:
". . . explodes with inventive action." --Publishers Weekly on Travis
S. Taylor's The Quantum Connection
"[Warp Speed] reads like Doc Smith writing Robert Ludlum. . . You
won't want to put it down"--John Ringo
