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  • Blue Gemini

  • A Thriller
  • By: Mike Jenne
  • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
  • Length: 22 hrs and 15 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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Blue Gemini

By: Mike Jenne
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Scott Ourecky wanted to fly - he never dreamed he'd end up in a secret military space program.

The year is 1968: The Cold War is far from over, and nuclear annihilation is always only a heartbeat away. America is racing the Soviet Union to land men on the moon, a war is raging, and a pivotal presidential election looms on the horizon. A child of the early space age, Lieutenant Scott Ourecky joined the air force with aspirations of going to flight school. A brilliant engineer, he repeatedly fails the aptitude test to become a pilot but is selected to work on a highly classified military space program - the innocuously named Aerospace Support Project - in which air force astronauts are slated to fly missions to intercept and destroy suspect Soviet satellites.

When one of the astronauts in training abruptly falls out of the project, Ourecky is asked to fill in for the two-man simulated missions and survival training only. He's asked to serve with a headstrong and abrasive test pilot, Major Drew Carson, until another astronaut can be assigned. By far the most proficient pilot assigned to the project, Carson has a dangerous propensity to engage in pick-up dog fighting sessions while on cross-country training flights. And although Ourecky was only a temporary place holder, not destined to fly in space, he soon finds himself much more involved than he ever anticipated - and in deepest peril.

Based on a real secret space program, Blue Gemini combines high-altitude action with edge-of-your-seat storytelling to create a modern Cold War thriller.

©2015 Mike Jenne (P)2015 Audible, Inc.

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a great story that sounds like fact.

This is a well written novel narrated exceptionally well. The end result is a highly engaging story based on facts of little US AIR FORCE space programs of the 60s.
I've read and listened to many non fiction books on the space race and this is incredibly convincing and well researched work of what could have been.
Being book one in a trilogy I can't wait to hear the remaining books.

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