Strike Eagle - Doug Beason

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Résumé :
AIR FORCE TWO WAS MISSING! When last contacted, Air Force Two, with the Vice-President of the United States aboard, was flying high over the Philippine jungle. On board was not only the Vice-President, but the football that gave him the power to initiate nuclear war. For in Washington, D.C., the U.S. President lay dying. At the newly reconstituted Clark Air Base, the orders went out: Air Force Two, aloft or downed, had to be found. The Vice-President, alive or dead, had to be brought back. The hunt was on. The race against time and the ultimate terror had begun . . . in an action-packed military thriller of supersonic suspense and explosive excitement-...

Biographie:
Doug Beason (Col, USAF, ret.) is the author of fourteen books-eight with collaborator Kevin J. Anderson-as well as two non-fiction books. Assemblers of Infinity was a Nebula Award finalist. Doug's short 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, and Physics of Fluids, to Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Science, Technology and Society. Doug and Kevin J. Anderson's coauthored novel, The Trinity Paradox, holds the distinction of being the first work of fiction ever nominated for the American Physical Society's Forum Award for promoting the understanding of physics in society, and was the first novel ever reviewed in Physics Today.Doug recently served as Chief Scientist for the USAF Space Command and is Chairman of the Auburn University Wireless Engineering Board of Directors. He is currently the Senior Vice President for Special Programs at Universities Space Research Association, a non-profit entity of 105 PhD granting institutions established jointly by NASA and the National Academy of Science to conduct research in space science...

Sommaire:
Dr. J. Douglas Beason is the author of fourteen books, eight with collaborator Kevin J. Anderson, including Ignition and Ill Wind, as well as two non-fiction books. A Nebula Award finalist, Doug's short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and he has written for publications as diverse as Analog, Amazing Stories, Physical Review Letters and Physics of Fluids to Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Science, Technology and Society. Doug and Kevin'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 for promoting the understanding of physics in society, and was the first novel ever reviewed in Physics Today....