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As the Project enters its final phase, Air Force Majors Carson and Ourecky are dispatched on an urgent mission to intercept and investigate a massive orbiting object suspected of harboring nuclear weapons. Emotionally exhausted, with his marriage teetering on the brink, Ourecky reluctantly accepts the assignment; in return for his sacrifice, he is promised an opportunity to go to MIT to pursue the Ph.D he has long desired.As they draw close to the mysterious satellite and prepare to destroy it, they are confronted with a dark secret that they will carry forever, and are forced to contemplate their own mortality and the dire prospect of dying in space.On their return to earth, they are offered an opportunity almost too good to pass up, which entails flying into orbit yet again, except under considerably different circumstances.



About the Author

Mike Jenne

Mike Jenne is a writer of historical fiction and techno-thrillers. His first novel, Blue Gemini, will be released by Yucca Publishing (an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing) on May 5th. Blue Gemini is the first installment of a series; the next book---Blue Darker than Black--- and is scheduled for release in January, and the third---Pale Blue---will follow next summer.

Mike is a licensed pilot, life-long aerospace aficionado and amateur space historian who grew up in Huntsville, Alabama. As a child, he felt the ground shudder---often---as the Saturn V moon rockets were tested at nearby Marshall Space Flight Center, and went to school with the children of Von Braun's German rocket scientists. Trained as an Army Ranger and Military Freefall ("HALO") Parachutist, he is a former Special Forces officer who has served across the globe, including deployments to Central America, Haiti, the Middle East, and Afghanistan. As a Special Forces survival instructor in the early Eighties, he worked directly with LTC James N. "Nick" Rowe (RIP) and other former Vietnam POWs to develop the Army's SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) School at Camp Mackall, North Carolina. Mike and his wife, Adele, make their home near Birmingham, Alabama.

Blue Gemini is currently available for pre-release purchase at Amazon.com, Google Books, Barnes & Noble and Books-a-Million. Here are some reviews for Blue Gemini:

"...an epic tale of high-stakes action seasoned with the muddy complexities of human relationships." --Publishers Weekly

"It's fiction but you'd hardly know it. The settings and other details are spot on! A great read." --Werner J.A. Dahm, (former) Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force

"...realism that almost had me looking for my headset to start working the mission!" --John Muratore, Former Shuttle Flight Director



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