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Title: Ignition

Author: Kevin J. Anderson, Doug Beason

Narrator: Roger Dressler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-18-08

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

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.

Members Reviews:

Plenty of thrills in the space/crime caper

There are lots of thrills and tech to enjoy in this book by veteran SF writer Anderson and former AF Space Command Chief Scientist Beason. Along the way, our hero, the grounded astronaut known to one and all as "Iceberg," launches his one-man war against criminals - not political terrorists, straight-up money-seeking criminals - who have taken over NASA's Launch Control Center and are holding it and the launch-ready shuttle Atlantis hostage. The bad guys are smart and methodical, although they are not quite as smart as they think: they have too few people trying to do too many things, and it comes back to bite them. The authors know the area (they note they have taken some liberties and changed some details of real NASA security procedures) and the whole thing feels pretty plausible. The criminals have tried to make up for lack of manpower by thinking through contingencies and setting up mines and weapons to thwart NASA security forces and appear to be a larger group than they are. The good guys are not going to get out of this without heavy losses, and they don't. Readers will hang on to the end through twists, turns (and some improbable heroics by the broken-footed Iceberg). The VERY end, will, surprisingly, bring a chuckle. Solid thriller in every respect.

Ignition is the "Diehard" of the spring book season.

Ignition is the "Diehard" of this spring. Kevin Anderson and Doug Beason have proved once again that they are the masters of the techno-thriller.

Terrorists have taken over the space shuttle holding it for ransom as the our accidental hero "Iceberg" was in the right place at the wrong time, just like the trilogy of "Diehard" movies.

The action is fast and believable with lots of unexpected twists and turns that made me race through the book.

I highly recommend this fine volume and other Anderson/Beason works like "Virtual Destruction" and their other recent work "Fallout."

non-stop suspense

Once started I couldn't put the book down. Doug Beason is a friend of mine and this is the first one of his books that I have read.