' 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 series Israel
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 ' Not to be missed' Frederick Forsyth '
Explosive' Gregg Hurwitz ' Exciting authentic' Linwood Barclay
