Return to Honor

Doug Beason

2014年3月 · WordFire +ORM

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Five thousand miles from the U.S., the president of the United States is facing death.

In one hour, an American force will strike back—with the most daring rescue
mission ever!

The RDF—Marine Corps Rapid Deployment Force—can strike anywhere in the
world in under an hour. Their secret weapon: the Trans-Atmospheric Vehicle flown at
15,000 miles per hour by the Air Force’s most elite pilots, carrying a deadly cargo of
highly trained marines. The technology is unproven. But its time has come.…

作者简介

Colonel Doug Beason, USAF (ret), is the author of 14 books, eight with collaborator Kevin J. Anderson, including Ignition (bought by Universal studios), Nebula nominee Assemblers of Infinity, and Ill Wind (optioned by Fox Studios). His solo novels are Return to Honor, Assault on Alpha Base, and Strike Eagle. His latest nonfiction book is The E-Bomb: How America's New Directed Energy Weapons Will Change the Way Wars Will Be Fought. Colonel Beason's short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies as diverse as Analog and Amazing Stories, to Physical Review Letters and The Wall Street Journal. A Fellow of the American Physical Society and Ph.D. physicist, Doug has worked on the White House staff for the President's Science Advisor, was the Associate Laboratory Director at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he was responsible for reducing the global threat of weapons of mass destruction, and was recently Chief Scientist for Air Force Space Command. On active duty for 24 years, Colonel Beason's last assignment was as the Commander of the Phillips Research Site, where he was responsible for the facilities and personnel conducting research on directed-energy weapons and space vehicles in three theaters world-wide. He is currently Senior Vice President for Special Programs at Universities Space Research Association and is at work on several novels. DougBeason.com