The Apollo Murders

From astronaut Chris Hadfield (Andy Weir, author of The Martian and Project Hail Mary), the New York Times bestselling author, comes an amazing first novel and a "exciting journey" into the dark heart of the Cold War and the space race.

A last, extremely covert expedition to the Moon in 1973. Three crew members in a small spacecraft, 25,000 miles away from home. 25 million miles away from assistance.

Apollo 18 is set to launch from NASA. Although the mission has been described as scientific, Kazimieras "Kaz" Zemeckis, the flight controller, is aware that there is a more sinister goal. Apollo 18 might be the last opportunity to shut down the covert Soviet space station that intelligence has found to be eavesdropping on the United States.

However, a catastrophic mishap shows that not everyone involved is exactly who they were supposed to be, even as Kaz scrambles to keep the NASA crew one step ahead of their Russian adversaries. The White House and the Kremlin are forced to watch helplessly as their astronauts crash on the lunar surface, well beyond the reach of law enforcement or rescue efforts, because the political stakes are so high.

The Apollo Murders is a high-stakes thriller unlike any other, packed with the intriguing scientific information that fans of The Martian enjoyed and evoking memories of the exhilarating twists, turns, and tension of The Hunt for Red October. Only someone who has actually experienced all of these things in real life can truly convey the intense G-forces of launch, the icy loneliness of space, and the terror of hanging on to the outside of a spaceship orbiting the Earth at 17,000 miles per hour, like Chris Hadfield does.

Get comfortable and count down for an unforgettable journey.