Ascent - Jed Mercurio
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Read by Todd McLaren
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Jed Mercurio - Ascent (2007)
Read by Tod McLaren
7:21 unb 32/22 mono 101 MB
The Sun swings behind the world. Night engulfs him. The dull metal craft plunges through space, its portholes pale beacons containing the silhouette of a man, and the only other lights are the stars themselves.
Can one act define a man? Or his country? Ascent is the spellbinding thriller by critically acclaimed British novelist Jed Mercurio. Inspired by the secrets still surrounding the USSR’s race against the United States to put a man on the moon, Mercurio asks the chilling question, What if the Americans weren’t first?
Ascent takes us on the perilous journey of its singular hero, the brave and determined Yefgenii Yeremin. Yefgenii rises from the privation of a Stalingrad orphanage in 1946 to the heights of the cosmonaut corps. During the Korean War he joins an elite Soviet squadron conducting a secret air war against the famous aces of the U.S. Air Force. Dubbed Ivan the Terrible, he amasses more jet kills than any fighter pilot in history, but his feats must remain unknown to his countrymen, his victories un-celebrated. After the war, his achievements are scrubbed from the records and he is exiled to a base above the Arctic Circle, where he flies patrols on the edge of American airspace. There he learns that Yuri Gagarin has become the first man in space, the greatest of all heroes.
And then, as America’s Apollo astronauts prepare to reach the Moon, he is given a new name and sent into cosmonaut training. Throughout his career, he has craved a place in history, in the climactic clash between the two great powers. At last his country calls him. And somewhere between the Earth and the Moon, Ivan the Terrible finds his mission to create history, to exceed his own life.
With one of the most fascinating heroes in recent fiction, Ascent builds a terrifying scenario within the shadowy history of the space race. Haunting, tragic, boldly inventive, Ascent is a tour de force of imagination.
Quote from Ascent
“Yefgenii said, “The Americans spent millions of dollars designing a pen that would work in space. What did we do?” Gevorkian’s head was down, his eyes were down. “What did we do?”
Gevorkian lifted his head “We used pencils.”
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This post has 2 comments
December 12th, 2014
“We used pencils.”
Ha-ha-ha-ha-NO.
http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
December 13th, 2014
Thanks for the link. Once again, an attempt to make American government and business look bad is nothing more than a fable gone out of control. Nothing more than a businessman who saw an opportunity and wanted to do something for the Space Program -and its paid dividends for his company over the years.
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