John J Nance

Medusa's Child John J Nance

Publisher Marketing: For thirty-year-old captain Scott McKay, the transport run from Miami to Denver will give him the money he desperately needs to keep his fledgling air cargo company flying. When a mysterious crate is discovered on his plane, however, McKay is ordered to abandon his present course and fly the crate and its owner, Vivian Henry, to Washington, D. C., before going to Denver. McKay takes the forced detour in stride until a strange noise comes from deep inside the crate. It is the voice of Vivian's husband, Dr. Rogers Henry, warning that the shipment they are carrying is actually a fully armed Medusa device, a thermonuclear bomb that can destroy every computer chip over an entire continent, and blast the Silicon Age back to the Stone Age. And it is set to go off within hours. As panic spreads from the small community of nuclear scientists who used to work for Dr. Rogers Henry to the White House and eventually to the general public, a group of rogue military officers conspires to disobey the President's orders and secure the technology of the Medusa device, whatever the cost. Will Captain McKay and his crew trust their own instincts to dispose of the bomb, or will they let a misguided government dictate their actions?" Review Citations: Library Journal 03/01/1997 (EAN 9780787112578, Analog Audio Cassette) Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/1996 pg. 64 (EAN 9780385483438, Hardcover) Booklist 12/15/1996 pg. 693 (EAN 9780385483438, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 12/15/1996 pg. 1762 (EAN 9780385483438, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 01/06/1997 pg. 64 (EAN 9780385483438, Hardcover) Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/15/1997 pg. 123 (EAN 9780385483438, Hardcover) Library Journal 01/01/1997 pg. 149 (EAN 9780385483438, Hardcover) School Library Journal 02/01/1998 pg. 140 (EAN 9780385483438, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/1997 pg. 59 (EAN 9780385483438, Hardcover) Library Journal 10/01/1996 (EAN 9780385483438, Hardcover) Library Journal 01/01/1997 (EAN 9780385483438, Hardcover) School Library Journal 01/22/1998 (EAN 9780385483438, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 646 (EAN 9780385483438, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 758 (EAN 9780385483438, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Nance, John J John J. Nance, aviation analyst for ABC News and a familiar face on Good Morning America, is the author of several bestselling novels including Fire Flight, Skyhook, Turbulence, and Orbit. Two of his novels, Pandora s Clock and Medusa s Child, have been made into highly successful television miniseries. A lieutenant colonel in the U. S. Air Force Reserve, Nance is a decorated pilot veteran of Vietnam and Operations Desert Storm/Desert Shield. He lives in Washington State.