Michael Cassutt – författare

A gripping thriller of murder and betrayal at NASA. When a veteran astronaut dies mysteriously during a routine training flight, Mark Koskinen, the rookie astronaut who survives the crash, finds himself caught in a web of suspicion, intrigue, and deception."TV writer Cassutt (who coauthored Deke!, the memoir of astronaut Deke Slayton) delivers a winner for lovers of aerospace, action or suspense fiction. " - Publishers WeeklyAt the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A suspenseful near-future story from Michael Cassutt about what happens during the vetting process of a researcher from the Middle East, who is trying to enter the US to continue his studies, and the immigration lawyer assigned to his case, who is dying of cancer. A Tor.com OriginalAt the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

It begins in 1964 with the sudden and unexpected death of Sergai Korolev, the man who ran the Soviet Space Program. Young Yuri Ribko, an engineering student working for one of the Korolev''s bureaus, is either fortunate or unfortunate to have an uncle who is a high ranking member of State security. Yuri''s uncle recruits him to spy within the Bureau, to assist in identifying possible threats to the Space Program. In return, Yuri is set on a fast-track of promotion, from engineering assistant to cosmonaut.From the earliest work on Russia''s lunar lander, through a devastating string of exploding launch vehicles and deadly landings, Red Moon gives us an insider''s view of Russia''s gallant but doomed Moon Shot. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

It''s 2005, and the world has changed. International terrorists have released a genetically modified disease, called X-Pox, on the world. There is no greater challenge to medicine than finding a cure. Biochem billionaire Tad Mikleszewski (called TM by nearly everyone) is a "space junkie" who has been the primary investor backing the Spacelifter project, a private attempt to build a single-stage to orbit vehicle. But Spacelifter''s crucial test firing has failed, and TM is going to pull the plug. He has a better idea for getting himself into space....he''ll buy research time on the International Space Station, to work on a cure for X-Pox. The Russians will sell him a seat on the Soyuz taxi vehicle for a mere $30 million.But the equipment in the Harmony Laboratory module was salvaged from old Russian military labs, and perhaps TM''s skills are a little bit out of date. A tiny leak - a small hole in the seal of the isolation box where TM is manipulating the X-Pox pathogen, and Harmony is contaminated by the disease that kills within three weeks. Now it''s a race against time, to rescue the crew and decontaminate the Space Station. NASA has a shuttle a month from launch, and if Astronaut Kelly Gessner can be retrained in decontamination procedures they can push that up two weeks. The Russians have a third Soyuz due off the assembly line, but Astronaut Mark Koskinen, NASA''s chief of staff at Star City doesn''t think they''ll make it in time. But whether Russian or American, someone is going to have to get up there, and fast.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.