"An exciting insider's look at Projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo — NASA's internal politics, disasters, glitches and close calls" by a pioneering astronaut (Publishers Weekly). Gordon "Gordo" Cooper was one of the original Mercury Seven...
Some will know how it begins...
Her name is Sandy. You might know her as the loving wife of Detective Superintendent Roy Grace.
But there’s more to her than meets the eye. A woman with a dubious past, a complicated present and an uncertain...
That was Gil Best all over, a tough nut to crack and hard as nails. With brains to boot, as the chiseling legal staff of Airline Stage ways soon found when they tried their gyp-artist tactics on the shock-proof investigator’s own pet...
Iceland 1940. Britain invades Iceland. Lieutenant Tom Marks is a British officer tasked with defending Whale Fjord. He meets Kristín, a young widow from a nearby farm, who has a small son. Tom is smitten.
Iceland 2023. Inspector Magnus...
We now live in enlightened times that reassure us that, far from being a lower form of literature, pulp fiction is the term for what the best storytelling provides — pyrotechnic thrills, shocks galore and excitement by the bucketload!
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Tiger Mann, master of counterespionage, is presented with one of his most frightening challenges: it is up to him to avert the imminent destruction of our defense system.
The engineer who supervised the installation of our special electronic...