Ascent

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<p><b>From the creator of the award-winning TV show,<i>Line of Duty</i></b></p><p>Yefgenii Yeremin is a flyer and he is a phantom.</p><p>In the Korean War, he is the legendary ace dubbed 'Ivan the Terrible', shooting down more American jets than any other pilot in history. But the Soviet Union's involvement in Korea must be kept secret, so Yefgenii is exiled to a remote Arctic base, his name unknown, his victories uncelebrated.</p><p>But in 1964, a man arrives from Moscow, from the Space Committee, in search of a volunteer prepared to sacrifice everything for his country...</p>

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Jed Mercurio's first novel,<i>Bodies</i>, was chosen as one of the five best debuts of<i></i>2002 by the<i>Guardian.</i>His adaptation won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Drama Series of 2005. His second novel,<i>Ascent,</i>was published in 2007 and his third,<i>American Adulterer,</i>in 2010.

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