Back to the Moon

The shuttle is hijacked. Now the countdown to adventure begins.... In his #1New York Timesbestselling memoir,October Sky, real-life NASA engineer Homer Hickam captured the excitement of America's first space ventures. Now, in this no-holds-barred joyride of a thriller, he straps us into the cockpit of the space shuttle Columbia as a renegade rocket man hijacks the shuttleand blasts off on a Mach-speed chase into space.... Jack Medaris is a man haunted by his past and driven by a dream: He's risking everything to "borrow" the Columbiaand pilot it to the moon. He didn't plan on an unexpected passenger, beautiful celebrity daredevil and scientist Penny High Eagle. To Penny, this hijacking will test every bit of her mettle as an adventurerand as a woman. To Jack, the mission is a personal questto return to the moon and bring back what America left behind, something so explosive, it could change the future of the world. Now, as the U.S. government scrambles to the chase, and as deadly forces are deployed from earth to stop them, a man and a woman find their fates inextricably entwined. And in the savage emptiness of deep space, their only hope is to join forces to reach the lunar surface. Then comes the hard part. Getting home alive.

Homer H. Hickam, Jr., is the author of the number one <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <b>Rocket Boys: A Memoir</b>, which received a National Book Critics Circle nomination and was the basis for the critically acclaimed movie <i>October Sky.</i> The author of <b>Torpedo Junction</b> as well as numerous articles for such publications as <i>Smithsonian Air and Space</i> and <i>American History Illustrated,</i> he is a retired NASA engineer, a scuba instructor, and a consultant on a variety of aerospace projects that interest him. He lives with his wife in Huntsville, Alabama--Rocket City, USA.