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“Stephen Coonts, like Jake Grafton, just keeps getting better.” — Tom Clancy “Wildly inventive . . . [Coonts] always seems to be a few months in front of the headlines and never gets a detail wrong.” xa0— Ocala Star-Banner Stephen Coonts (b. 1946) was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia. He is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-eight thriller and nonfiction titles, including The Intruders , The Minotaur , Under Siege , The Red Horseman , and The Cannibal Queen . A combat pilot in the Vietnam War, Coonts’s technical knowledge of aviation and warfare has contributed to the enormous popularity of his novels. The author currently divides his time between his home in Colorado and a farm in West Virginia, where he does much of his writing. From Publishers Weekly Navy Captain Jake Grafton develops an aircraft known as the Minotaur using Stealth technology and deals with a Defense Department information leak in this techno-thriller. PW commented, "Coonts is most compelling when he focuses on the politics of design and procurement; his comparisons of Navy and Air Force procedures are admirably sharp-edged." Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. Fighter-jock Jake Grafton has survived his share of airborne death duels. Now he's grounded. As head of the top-secret Athena Project, he's now in charge of developing the navy's next-generation attack aircraft-a carrier-launched stealth version of the A-6 Intruder. But deep within the labyrinth of the Pentagon, a cunning Soviet network is trashing U.S. security. Behind it is the ultimate spymaster called The Minotaur: his sights are on Jake's aircraft...and his plans are for one last kill. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. Read more
Features & Highlights
- From a
- New York Times
- –bestselling author: A military pilot is entangled in the hunt for a Cold War spy selling high-tech secrets to the USSR.
- Navy pilot Jake Grafton flies fighter jets with ice water in his veins. But when he’s assigned a desk job in the Pentagon as the head of a top-secret stealth bomber program, his nerve is tested as never before. Colleagues start dying mysteriously, test flights are sabotaged, and the program is threatened at every level. If Grafton can’t infiltrate a web of espionage and counterespionage centered on the deadly traitor code-named the Minotaur, he stands to lose much more than just his career.
- The Minotaur
- is an exhilarating thriller revealing the complexities of military technology R&D by the acclaimed author of
- Flight of the Intruder
- ,
- The Red Horseman
- , and other novels. In the words of Tom Clancy, “Stephen Coonts, like Jake Grafton, just keeps getting better.”
- This ebook features an illustrated biography of Stephen Coonts, including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
