{"product_id":"9781631580475","title":"Blue Gemini: A Thriller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eScott Ourecky wanted to fly—he never dreamed he'd end up in a secret military space program.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe year is 1968: The Cold War is far from over, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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, serving 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on a real secret space program, \u003ci\u003eBlue Gemini\u003c\/i\u003e combines high-altitude action with edge-of-your-seat storytelling to create a modern Cold War thriller.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yucca Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050540843248,"sku":"9781631580475","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781631580475_p0.jpg?v=1763672698","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781631580475","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}