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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Science fiction

HOLDOUT

Jeffrey Kluger

When evil forces are going unchecked on earth, a principled astronaut makes a split-second decision to try and seek justice in the only place she knows how to - the international space station.

Walli Beckwith is a model astronaut. She graduated at the top of her class from the naval academy, had a successful career flying fighter jets, and has spent over three hundred days in space. So when she refuses to leave her post at the international space station following an accident that forces her fellow astronauts to evacuate, her American and Russian colleagues are mystified. For Walli, the matter at hand feels all too clear and too terrifying for her to be worried about ruining her career. She is stuck in a race against time to save a part of the world it seems has been forgotten, and also the life of the person she loves the most. She will go to any means necessary, using the only method she has, to accomplish what she knows is right.

This is the perfect novel for fans of Ad Astra, The Martian, and the film Gravity - they will devour this page-turning space station adventure story with an Amazon rainforest twist.

Jeffrey Kluger is Editor at Large for TIME magazine and the author of ten books, including APOLLO 13, APOLLO 8, and two novels for young adults. He has written more than forty cover stories for TIME on topics ranging from space to human behavior to climate to medicine. Along with others at TIME, Kluger won an Emmy nominee for the web series A Year in Space. He consulted on and appeared in the Tom Hanks movie APOLLO 13.

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Book Published 2021-08-03 by Dutton

Comments

Kluger smoothly covers the technical aspects of life on the ISS and neatly contrasts international cooperation in space with conflict back on Earth. Readers who enjoyed Kluger's depiction of the Apollo 13 rescue effort will appreciate the reciprocity of a rescue of Earth from space. Read more...

Just terrific... readers will be flipping the pages as fast as they can to find out what happens next. Read more...

One of those rare books that is both a ripping good read and parable for our times. Holdout doesn't shy away from the big questions. It is deeply imagined, morally complex, and stayed with me long after the last page.

Holdout is a beautiful, character-driven story that moves the reader seamlessly from the Amazon basin to the International Space Station. It is brilliant, both technically in its descriptions of an astronaut's mission, and as a literary tour de force that moves the human heart.

Interlacing high-stakes action with ethical urgency, Holdout is a large-hearted thriller whose reluctant heroine - the astronaut-turned-activist Walli Beckwith - reminds us that the least likely platforms can be used to spark change.