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100 1  Hadfield, Chris,|d1959-|eauthor. 
245 04 The defector /|cChris Hadfield. 
250    First United States Edition 
264  1 New York :|bMulholland Books/Little Brown and Company,
       |c[2023] 
300    354 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 0  Apollo murders ;|v02. 
520     Israel, October 1973. As the Yom Kippur War flares into 
       life, a state-of-the-art Soviet MiG fighter plane plummets
       to an unexpected landing. NASA Flight Controller and 
       former US test pilot Kaz Zemeckis watches from the 
       ground—unaware that its arrival will pull him into a high-
       stakes game of spies, lies, and secrets that hold the key 
       to Cold War air and space supremacy.  For within that 
       plane is a Soviet pilot pleading to defect, offering a 
       prize beyond value: the workings of the Soviets' mythical 
       "Foxbat" MiG-25, the fastest, highest-flying fighter plane
       in the world. But trusting him is risky, and Kaz must 
       tread a careful line. As Kaz accompanies the defector into
       the United States, to the military’s most secret test site
       , he must hope that, with skill and cunning, the game 
       plays out his way.   Rich with insider detail and 
       political intrigue drawn from real events, The Defector is
       a propulsive thriller from a growing master of the genre, 
       filled with the nerve-shredding rush of aerial combat as 
       it could only be told by one of the world's best fighter 
       pilots. 
650  0 Defectors|zSoviet Union|vFiction. 
650  0 Fighter pilots|vFiction. 
655  7 Thrillers (Fiction)|2lcgft 
655  7 Novels.|2lcgft