Harrison, Payne Storming Intrepid BS

"I STMIM SU (ESN...

A literally out-of-this-world chess gamę of nuclear proportions."

The Baltimore Sun

ONE HIJACKED SHUTTLE OUT OF CONTROL IN OUTERSPACE

The crippled space shuttle INTREPID is carrying top secret | } Star Wars technology-and it appears that a Russian agent is 1 i in command. If the Soviets get to that payload before the I Americans, the consequences are unthinkable. . What began as a routine voyage tums into a harrowing nightmare in outer space as the top echelons of intelligence, military and aerospace combine forces in a desperate bid to i stop the Russians. The President's prepared to use    ,V i

everything from stealth bombers and SR-71 Blackbirds to • untested space fighters as this precedent shattering confrontation hurtles to its tension-crackling climax.    i ,

"Harrison has created a most believable scenario, with an amazing series of twists and turns....Run, do not walk, to the bookstore/' , ^UPI

"A MASTERPIECE...

Payne must be praised for his fine writing, narrative magie, technical expertise and chilling battle scenes.... Unexpected twists take the reader from the black battleground of space to the ghosts of Stalinist Russia...and back again."

Milwaukee Journal

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