With a blizzard raging outside and a house full of suspects, the girls have no choice but to band together. Suddenly, a fun night of scavenger hunts and sweets takes a nosedive and the girls aren’t sure who to trust. Soon, fingers are pointing in all directions, and someone falls strangely ill. But her luck changes quickly when the goggles disappear, and Millie was the last to see them.

She can’t believe her good luck, since they’re about to be relocated to a fancy museum in Washington, DC.

Once at Amelia’s house in Atchison, Kansas, Millie stumbles upon a display of Amelia’s famous flight goggles. But Millie’s mom is a pilot like the famous Amelia, and Millie would love to have something to write to her about…if only she had her address. The book has already received praise from a number of famous names, including film-maker James Cameron, who described the novel as “A nail-biting Cold War thriller.” Andy Weir, author of The Martian, describes it as “An exciting journey to an alternate past.” The Defector is available to pre-order now, and will be published on 10th October.Eleven-year-old Amelia Ashford- Millie to her friends (if she had any, that is)-doesn’t realize just how much adventure awaits her when she’s given the opportunity of a lifetime: to spend the night in Amelia Earhart’s childhood home with five other girls. Full of insider detail, excitement and political intrigue drawn from real events, The Defector brings us the nerve-shredding rush of aerial combat, as told by one of the world’s best fighter pilots. Ultimately, he must invite the fox into the henhouse – bringing the defector into the heart of the United States’ most secret test site – and hope that, with skill and cunning, the game plays out his way.įor Chris Hadfield’s second heart-stopping thriller, we move from Space to another rich and exciting part of Chris’s CV: his time as a top test pilot in both the US Air Force and the US Navy, and as an RCAF fighter pilot intercepting armed Soviet bombers in North American airspace. But every defection is double-edged with risk, and Kaz must tread a careful line between trust and suspicion. The prize is beyond value: the secrets of the Soviets’ mythical ‘Foxbat’ MiG-25, the fastest, highest-flying fighter plane in the world and the key to Cold War air supremacy.

NASA Flight Controller and former US Navy test pilot Kaz Zemeckis watches the scene from the ground – and is quickly pulled into a dizzying, high-stakes game of spies, lies and a possible high-level defection that plays out across three continents. As the Yom Kippur War flares into life, a state-of-the-art Soviet MIG fighter is racing at breakneck speed over the arid scrublands below. The book’s description reads: Israel, late 1973.

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