Lightning: a political technothriller

Miranda Chase-the autistic heroine you didn't expect. Fighting the battles no one else could win.

Revenge? A terrorist attack? Or a declaration of war?

The head of the Senate Armed Services Committee lies dead. The murder weapon? An Air Force jet deliberately crashed into his DC hotel room.

Half a world away in the South China Sea, an F-35C Lightning II - America's newest fighter jet - crashes during landing. It cripples the aircraft supercarrier USS Theodore Roosevelt. An accident? Or China's...