Ignition

Name: Ignition
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Kevin J. Anderson
ISBN: 9781423353218

Author: Kevin J. Anderson, Doug Beason

Narrator: Roger Dressler

Unabridged: 9 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 02/22/2008

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

The launch of the space shuttle Atlantis will make history. Another triumph for the space program and a political coup: a Russian cosmonaut is scheduled to perform the first spacewalk from an American unit.The checkout fail-safes are all go. The mission is proceeding like clockwork. The team of American and Russian astronauts are strapped in, the mission specialists in Houston see no hitches. No one knows the real danger....For as millions of viewers tune in to watch the countdown, there's nothing to indicate that what they're seeing is a prerecorded show. Terrorists have taken over Launch Control at Cape Canaveral and are threatening to blow up the Atlantis in less than three hours unless their demands are met. Only Colonel "Iceberg" Friese, the mission's former commander, out with a broken foot, knows about the danger to his crew. Unknown to anyone, he's sneaked into the restricted zone. And now it's up to him to stop the clock before the countdown reaches…Ignition.

About Kevin J. Anderson

Kevin J. Anderson has written twenty-seven national bestsellers and has over 15 million books in print worldwide. He has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFX Readers’ Choice Award.

About Doug Beason

Doug Beason is an Air Force lieutenant colonel and a former member of the White House science staff. Beason holds a Ph. D. in physics and has written over fifty scientific articles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rosa on June 17, 2018

Este libro estaría más cerca de las cuatro estrellas que de las tres. Una narrativa trepidante que hace que te enganches desde el primer segundo y que ya no la quieras dejar.......more

Goodreads review by John (I want my notifications back) on July 03, 2018

Kept me on the edge of my seat......more

Goodreads review by Kristin on August 26, 2011

Not a bad thriller - certainly better than the blurb, which sounds deadly dull. A paean to the space program, but filled with lots of details, without getting bogged down. Characters are reasonably well sketched for a thriller, and it's told from multiple POVs, so you get in the character's heads. K......more

Goodreads review by Bruce on March 22, 2020

A good, quick read as long as you didn't think too much about the story. Strengths: the authors did their research about the Kennedy Space Center in Florida during the Shuttle program. Lots of details about the Launch Control Center (LCC), the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), and the Fixed Service St......more

Goodreads review by Carolyn on May 24, 2021

It’s like Die Hard but with a space shuttle being held hostage as well as the people. I loved how the authors described the action scenes in a way that would make me physically cringe or feel like my stomach was turning imagining all the crazy feats that Iceberg and others got themselves into. Overa......more