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Freefall, March 2005 by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens Pocket Star Featuring: Navy SEAL Mitch Webber; Cory Rey 576 pages ISBN: 0743406079 Paperback Add to Wish List Purchase Amazon Powell's Books

"Thrilling military suspense novel."

Freefall
Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens

Reviewed by Morgan Chilson
Posted February 15, 2005

Suspense

Very few people are aware of the existence of the United States Space Force, a top-secret U.S. agency. Initially born to keep the "final frontier" safe for America, this agency hides operations that would make most Americans cringe. It began with a murder to make sure that the U.S. was the first to the moon. And as Cory Rey, a mission specialist on the International Space Station, finds evidence of the murder while she's on the moon, this agency leaps into action to keep its secret. Even if that means more murders.

Cory is trapped on the space station and her ex-boyfriend, Navy SEAL Mitch Webber, is fighting for both his life and hers back on the earth. Can he save her? And maybe have another shot at their relationship?

These characters, first introduced in ICEFIRE, add dimension to an already intriguing plot. The Reeves-Stevens have never failed me in a book -- they always keep me guessing with fascinating plot twists and mysteries that show their in-depth knowledge of the military and world politics. I recommend all of their books.

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SUMMARY

THE PLACE The International Space Station. Docked to it, the Space Shuttle Constitution. Crewed by ten astronauts trained to recover the $100-million cargo aboard the first privately launched lunar sample-return mission.

THE EVENT Sabotage. The containers from the Moon hold more than rocks and moondust, and there are those who are willing to kill to keep that knowledge from the world.

So begins the riveting new novel by acclaimed writing team Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens -- a relentless tale of high-tech conspiracy and suspense that reaches back to the darkest secrets of the space race of the 1960s, and ahead to the startling new technologies that will drive us to the Moon in the next decade.

Freefall marks the long-awaited return of the heroes of Icefire -- the Reeves-Stevens novel Stephen King hailed as: "The best suspense novel of its kind since The Hunt for Red October."

Now U.S. Navy Captain Mitch Webber, outspoken oceanographer Cory Rey, and Air Force Major Wilhemina Bailey of the United States Space Command are reunited in an even more harrowing adventure that pits them against the ruthless inheritors of a staggering conspiracy that could change history.

From the covert infiltration of China's most secure aerospace facility and the stirring heroism of astronauts and cosmonauts confronting disaster in space, to sudden violence on ordinary suburban streets and the startling revelation of America's most secret space program, Freefall is a nonstop explosive read that in true Reeves-Stevens fashion makes readers wonder where truth ends and fiction begins.

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