Ballistic

A Russian ICBM site is attacked near the Ukraine border, and nuclear warheads are missing. A Special Operations and Intelligence Community Task Force is assembled to respond, but their deployment location is unclear. A fire at a cosmonaut training facility results in the disappearance of five spacesuits, and the Task Force discovers a cache of detailed schematics of complex rocketry systems. Dr. Amy Sue Harrington of the Missiles and Space Intelligence Center is contacted, and she realizes that someone is targeting the International Space Station. Colonel Vladimir Lytokov and his team of mercenaries hijack the ISS, taking it to orbit and holding the world hostage. Lytokov rains down destruction from above, making them untouchable. However, Major Allison Simms, an American astronaut, is on board the ISS, and the Task Force must come to her rescue.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 544 pages
Publication date: 09 July 2023
Publisher: Baen Books

A Russian ICBM site is attacked just north of the Ukraine border, and the nuclear warheads are missing! A Special Operations and Intelligence Community Task Force is rapidly put together to respond, but where it should deploy is unclear. A fire ravages a cosmonaut training facility, in which five spacesuits disappear, and the Task Force finds a cache of detailed schematics of highly complex rocketry systems.

The Task Forces reaches out to Dr. Amy Sue Harrington of the Missiles and Space Intelligence Center in Huntsville, Alabama. To Dr. Harrington, it all adds up to the unthinkable: someone, someone extremely well-funded, is taking aim at the International Space Station. But Colonel Vladimir Lytokov and his team of mercenaries arent planning to bring the ISS crashing to Earth. Theyre taking the fight to orbit, boarding the station and hijacking it.

As the ISS traces its path across the heavens, Lytokov rains down destruction from above, effectively holding the entire globe hostage. With all the rockets capable of reaching the ISS currently out of commission, the terrorists are untouchable in their orbital perch. But Lytokov and his men have overlooked one crucial aspect of their intricate plan: that astronaut Major Allison Simms is on board the ISS! And you dont mess with American astronauts!

But can one astronaut hold out until the Task Force can come to the rescue? The fate of the world hangs in the balance as Lytokov and his men continue their deadly mission, and the Task Force races against time to stop them before its too late.

ISBN-13: 9781982192846