PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
CHRIS HADFIELD is one of the most seasoned and accomplished astronauts in the world. The top graduate of the U.S. Air Force test pilot school in 1988 and U.S. Navy test pilot of the year in 1991, Colonel Hadfield was CAPCOM for 25 shuttle missions and NASA's Director of Operations in Russia. Hadfield served as Commander of the International Space Station where, while conducting a record-setting number of scientific experiments and overseeing an emergency spacewalk, he gained worldwide acclaim for his breathtaking photographs and educational videos about life in space. His music video, a zero-gravity version of David Bowie's 'Space Oddity', has nearly 50 million views, and his TED talk on fear has been viewed over 10 million times. He helped create and judge the BBC TV series Astronauts: Do You Have What It Takes?, and has a MasterClass on exploration. Chris Hadfield's books An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, You Are Here and The Darkest Dark have been bestsellers all around the world.
An explosive thriller from a writer who has actually been to Space and back. Strap in for the ride! * Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times bestselling author of the Orphan X novels * A nail-biting cold war thriller . . . It's a very rare book that combines so many things I love, from taut suspense and highly realistic action, to the golden age of space exploration. I couldn't put it down * James Cameron, writer and director of Avatar and Titanic * There's maybe one person on Earth with the writing chops and the expertise to write a to-the-Moon thriller this exciting, this authentic. Chris Hadfield is that guy * Linwood Barclay, New York Times bestselling author of Find You First * Not to be missed. Even in fiction there is authenticity. It is either there... or it is not. With Chris Hadfield it is, because everything he describes he has really seen * Frederick Forsyth, New York Times bestselling author of The Day of the Jackal and The Fox * A relentlessly exciting, deeply intriguing insider's look at the prime years of the Apollo space program, ingeniously weaving together three of the coldest, darkest things in existence - Cold War politics, space, and murder * Stephen Mack Jones, author of the August Snow series * Hadfield's bona fides are unimpeachable - but it's his inventive action sequences and keen eye for illuminating details that propel THE APOLLO MURDERS ever skyward in this stellar thrill ride * Chris Holm, author of The Killing Kind * Chris Hadfield has deftly combined fact and fiction in a gripping tale of high-stakes treachery [that] builds to an explosive and satisfying finale. * John Verdon, internationally bestselling author of the Dave Gurney series *
