This was an interesting thriller that was so improbable as to make it seems virtually impossible, unlike many other thriller books out there. The book centers around the space shuttle Liberty. Its mission is aborted and it's forced to return and land, not in the US, but in North Korea. While the few survivors try to survive, the North Koreans, Chinese, and Americans are in a desperate race against time to find the shuttle and the survivors in order to avert a potential nuclear war.Okay, now that that's out of the way, aside from how the shuttle is diverted, it's by whom that strikes me as absurd. I just can't buy it. I won't spoil it for possible readers by divulging it here, but it's really rather stupid, in my opinion. Then, there's the larger than life superhero of the novel, Trev Galt. He's actually an asshole who refuses to take orders from anyone, including the president of the United States, and is capable of leaping single buildings in a bound and taking on 400 men with one swing. Okay, I'm exaggerating, but the author really makes him out to be some kind of superhero, and that got old. Make him realistic, please. How about John Wells or Bob Lee Swagger? Trev Galt? Unbelievable moron.This book had a lot of potential and it's still fairly decent. There's some good action in it. But the author makes some mistakes along the way that bring the book down a couple of stars. Cautiously recommended.
