A Game of Titans

 

"A Game of Titans is entertaining and informative."

James T. Westwood

Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Navy

Naval War College Review

* Stranded on the remote coral atoll of Tongareva, a defecting scientist hovers at death's door. His frail body, the repository of secrets to a breakthrough in rocket propulsion, he is soon to become the target of a deadly race between two of the most terrifying weapons systems ever devised.
* Thousands of miles away in mid-Pacific, Rear Admiral Nikolay Bakhirev, commander of the Soviet super-carrier Kiev, has diverted his ship toward the atoll. At the same time the American nuclear airship Grand Eagle, a top-secret modern military successor to the dirigible, larger and more sophisticated than any in the past, carrying an elite team of scientists and military men, VTOL fighters and state of the art laser weaponry, leaves its secret underground hangar on its maiden flight—to Tongareva. As the two juggernauts feint and probe, edging ever nearer to all-out combat on a scale Jules Verne never could have imagined, the hours tick away for the people on Tongareva, caught in their own bitter struggle for possession of the scientist and his vital secrets.
* An unforgettable cold war technological thriller by the author of the chilling Houndstooth, praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer as "one of those books that takes today's technology and carries it one giant leap forward.... Michael Crichton writes books like these."

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A Game of Titans

 

"A Game of Titans is entertaining and informative."

James T. Westwood

Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Navy

Naval War College Review

* Stranded on the remote coral atoll of Tongareva, a defecting scientist hovers at death's door. His frail body, the repository of secrets to a breakthrough in rocket propulsion, he is soon to become the target of a deadly race between two of the most terrifying weapons systems ever devised.
* Thousands of miles away in mid-Pacific, Rear Admiral Nikolay Bakhirev, commander of the Soviet super-carrier Kiev, has diverted his ship toward the atoll. At the same time the American nuclear airship Grand Eagle, a top-secret modern military successor to the dirigible, larger and more sophisticated than any in the past, carrying an elite team of scientists and military men, VTOL fighters and state of the art laser weaponry, leaves its secret underground hangar on its maiden flight—to Tongareva. As the two juggernauts feint and probe, edging ever nearer to all-out combat on a scale Jules Verne never could have imagined, the hours tick away for the people on Tongareva, caught in their own bitter struggle for possession of the scientist and his vital secrets.
* An unforgettable cold war technological thriller by the author of the chilling Houndstooth, praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer as "one of those books that takes today's technology and carries it one giant leap forward.... Michael Crichton writes books like these."

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A Game of Titans

A Game of Titans

by Gary Alan Ruse
A Game of Titans

A Game of Titans

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"A Game of Titans is entertaining and informative."

James T. Westwood

Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Navy

Naval War College Review

* Stranded on the remote coral atoll of Tongareva, a defecting scientist hovers at death's door. His frail body, the repository of secrets to a breakthrough in rocket propulsion, he is soon to become the target of a deadly race between two of the most terrifying weapons systems ever devised.
* Thousands of miles away in mid-Pacific, Rear Admiral Nikolay Bakhirev, commander of the Soviet super-carrier Kiev, has diverted his ship toward the atoll. At the same time the American nuclear airship Grand Eagle, a top-secret modern military successor to the dirigible, larger and more sophisticated than any in the past, carrying an elite team of scientists and military men, VTOL fighters and state of the art laser weaponry, leaves its secret underground hangar on its maiden flight—to Tongareva. As the two juggernauts feint and probe, edging ever nearer to all-out combat on a scale Jules Verne never could have imagined, the hours tick away for the people on Tongareva, caught in their own bitter struggle for possession of the scientist and his vital secrets.
* An unforgettable cold war technological thriller by the author of the chilling Houndstooth, praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer as "one of those books that takes today's technology and carries it one giant leap forward.... Michael Crichton writes books like these."


Product Details

BN ID: 2940164764142
Publisher: Gary Alan Ruse
Publication date: 12/18/2020
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
File size: 755 KB

About the Author

Have been a professional writer of science fiction, mysteries and "techno-thrillers" since the 70's, and served as an Army reporter in Vietnam. I have five previous novels published, "Houndstooth" and "A Game of Titans" in hardcovers by Prentice-Hall with foreign editions in Great Britain and Japan, and "The Gods of Cerus Major" in hardcover by Doubleday, and original paperbacks "Morlac: The Quest of the Green Magician" and "Death Hunt on a Dying Planet" by Signet/New American Library. Also a number of stories published in magazines and anthologies, and more than 1200 newspaper articles in Community Newspapers.

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