Phantom Orbit: A Thriller Fern Haught Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

the landings from the greatest armada of ships ever assembled began at 0630hrs

recognizing when the government is failing

--Hayley Scrivenor

A Best Book of the Year: Washington Post

Phantom Orbit: A Thriller Fern Haught Langston HughesDavid Ignatius is known for his uncanny ability, in novel after novel, to predict the next great national security headline. In Phantom Orbit, he presents a story both searing and topical, with stakes as far reaching as outer space. It follows Ivan Volkov, a Russian student in Beijing, who discovers an unsolved puzzle in the writings of the seventeenth century astronomer Johannes Kepler. He takes the puzzle to a senior scientist in the Chinese space