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In an act of savage terror, the President of the United State is seized on Air Force One with its location pinpointed to a remote and hostile African country by an American space spy station. With the power to strike any where in the world in under one hour, The Marine Corps Rapid Deployment Force must save the day.
With the help of the RDF’s secret weapon—the Trans-Atmospheric Vehicle flown at 15,000 miles per hour by the Air Force’s most elite pilots, carrying a deadly cargo of highly trained marines—it is up to one footloose Air Force pilot and an unproven Marine Corps commander to catapult their men and machines into the heart of Africa.
Their mission: free the President and get out alive.
- Print length240 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJuly 5, 2014
- Dimensions5 x 0.6 x 8 inches
- ISBN-101476797153
- ISBN-13978-1476797151
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- Publisher : Gallery Books; Reissue edition (July 5, 2014)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 240 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1476797153
- ISBN-13 : 978-1476797151
- Item Weight : 7.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5 x 0.6 x 8 inches
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Dr. Doug Beason, PhD, has authored 16 novels, 2 nonfiction books, and over 100 articles and short stories. He's written 9 novels with collaborator Kevin J. Anderson, including KILL ZONE, a recent thriller from Forge Books -- as well as IGNITION (bought by Universal Studios) and ILL WIND (optioned by 20th Century Fox Studios and ABC). His novel SPACE STATION DOWN, a collaboration with Ben Bova, is scheduled for August 2020 release from Forge Books.
A Nebula Award finalist, Doug's fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and he has written for publications as diverse as The Wall Street Journal, Analog, Amazing Stories, Physical Review Letters, Journal of Computational Physics, and Physics of Fluids. Doug and Kevin Anderson’s novel THE TRINITY PARADOX holds the distinction of being the first work of fiction ever nominated for the American Physical Society's Forum Award, promoting the understanding of physics in society; it was the first novel ever reviewed in Physics Today.
A Fellow of the American Physical Society and Ph.D. physicist, Doug has over 40 years of R&D experience that spans conducting basic research to directing nationally important, applied-science programs and formulating national policy. He recently served as Chief Scientist for the USAF Space Command as a Senior Level Executive, where he established the command’s first long-term S&T goals that are being used to produce new national space and cyber capabilities. In 2008, he retired as the Associate Laboratory Director (for Threat Reduction) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he was responsible for the programs and people to reduce the global threat of weapons of mass destruction. Before moving to Los Alamos, Doug completed a 24 year career as an Air Force officer, retiring as a Colonel. His last assignment was Commander of the Phillips Research Site (Kirtland AFB) & Deputy Director, Directed Energy at the Air Force Research Laboratory.
Doug has worked on the White House staff for the President's Science Advisor under both the Bush and Clinton Administrations as the key White House staffer for space science and technology, and was recently the Principal US Representative for the US/United Kingdom/Canada Small Satellite Program. He has also served on a Vice Presidential committee headed by astronaut Tom Stafford (commander of Apollo-Soyuz and Apollo 10) to generate plans for the nation to return to the Moon and go on to Mars; directed an Air Force plasma physics research group; served in a dual appointment as an Associate Professor of Physics and Director of Faculty Research at the U.S. Air Force Academy; and has performed research at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He was recently on the United Kingdom’s Threat Reduction Advisory Board for the UK’s Atomic Weapons Establishment, was a member of the USAF Science Advisory Board, and is a past Vice President of the Directed Energy Professional Society and member of the Air and Space Power Journal Editorial Board.
Doug is a 1977 graduate of the United States Air Force Academy (dual B.S. in Physics and Mathematics), and holds an M.S. in Physics (University of New Mexico), an M.S. in National Resource Strategy (National Defense University), a Ph.D. in Physics (University of New Mexico), and was a military senior service school Distinguished Graduate from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. The author of over 100 scholarly papers, articles, and other publications, his book "Science and Technology Policy for the post-Cold War: A Case for Long-Term Research," was awarded the National Defense University President's Strategic Vision award and was used as a textbook at National War College and the Air War College. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a Life Member of the U. S. Air Force Academy Association of Graduates, the Military Officers Association of America, and the Science Fiction Writers of America. An Eagle Scout, he has lived in Canada, the Philippine Islands, and Okinawa.
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I think this book is for Rush fans, although anyone open-minded enough to read it (Rush fan or not) can learn something about being an authentic human being. I suppose fans will have their "favorite" band member - mine happens to be Alex, not Neil. But the essential nature of Rush is what these three awesome guys did TOGETHER - for their fans, their families, and most of all themselves. All three of them are titans, and accomplished something unprecedented in the history of music. None of them, not even Neil, could have done that alone. So in my view, the band is the common denominator through which their individual characters, achievements, and contributions to human existence are best viewed and appreciated.
Dr. Birzer captures that texture perfectly. While Neil is the "main character" of the book and much of the analysis and anecdotes focus on him, I thought the book did a great job capturing the band dynamic and giving it its due and proper.
I would respectfully disagree with some criticisms I saw of the book, particularly those that take issue with the fact that Birzer often views Neil's life, work and writings through what one might deem a theological or "religious" (I hate that word) lens. Neil, as any fan knows, would be described more as a humanist - certainly not a religious person in the conventional sense, although I would argue a deeply spiritual one in the best sense of the word. Goodness is found in character, integrity, and the pursuit of perfection. Truth is universal, and may be found in the strangest places. Beauty takes effort, intention, and talent to create. Neil Peart produced more goodness, truth and beauty in his life than countless people ever will regardless of their theology. That's good enough for me.
In summary - this book is a must-read for all Rush fans, and even people too unsophisticated and dull (or too COOL) to be counted as one may yet be brought into the fold by an open-minded look at this excellent work from a gentleman and a scholar. Enjoy!
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Author Mario Acevedo is at home in the southwestern US desert; his New Mexico setting and cultural descriptions are good and his battle story is well-written. But Acevedo IMO misses character development opportunities. In previous novels both Carmen and Jolie were emotionally hard-boiled executioners; here their visible empathy weakens them with no compensating advantage. And Phaedra's development and ascendency IMO is a void. Previously Phaedra was a troubled teenage girl with confused psychic powers who Felix saved by turning her into a vampire; here Phaedra is the self-proclaimed Queen Of The Vampires who has devastating psychic power beam abilities, who has a diverse network of allies, and who fields vampire and human suicide bomber cadres. Phaedra's development and ascendancy merit a whole novel; the unfilled void IMO merits minus one star.
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James Truly is a CIA agent that’s been put out to pasture, now in charge of Operation Moon Flash, the agency’s covert Psychic investigations, not quite x-files but a division to counter act foreign nations efforts into the area of extrasensory perception. Truly has to divert his attention from his extra-curricular activities when his psychic contacts start reporting major problems and inexplicably dying along the way.
CNN correspondent Wade Scheiner is taken hostage in Iraq but what’s more surprising to him is his eventual escape and he soon finds himself back home in the Borderlands where murder both past and present is very much in thoughts.
Molly McCall is a reporter for the Voice of the Borderlands and she finds her skills stretched as she covers a series of murders, Molly’s brother and Wade’s best friend Byrd is in Providence Memorial hospital dying from Leukemia. These three characters re-united in tragic circumstances are about to witness some extremely strange events, murder is just around the corner and what do the words Kethili-cha mean, words from a dead language, words of power.
River Runs Red is very much a character driven story of epic proportions, an intense experience with some surprises along the way. Where the line between good and bad is jaded and all is not as it seems. This was my first read from Jeff Mariotte and it certainly won’t be my last.