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. It soon becomes clear to Israeli intelligence that the pilot is a defector
desperate to come over to the US side. Houston Flight Controller and former test pilot Kaz
Zemeckis is charged with bringing the pilot and his plane to the highly secret Area 51 in the
Nevada desert. But every defection carries with it a risk. It soon becomes clear that 'Grief'
has the technical ability and now the opportunity to gain access to the treasures of the
Nevada Test Range - either a prototype stealth fighter or the NERVA nuclear rocket engine. Or
both. For Chris Hadfield's second heart-stopping thriller we move from Space to another rich
and exciting part of Chris's professional CV: his time as the top test pilot in both the US Air
Force and the US Navy and as a Cold War pilot intercepting armed Soviet bombers in North
American airspace. Just as Gregg Hurwitz called The Apollo Murders 'an explosive thriller by a
writer who has actually been to space and back' here we have a matchless thriller and the
nerve-shredding rush of aerial combat as told by one of the world's top fighter pilots.
