KINGFISHER SEVEN

A fun, fast-paced crime thriller about an ex-military officer hired to stop the hijacking of a private rocket before it's turned on civilians. Think Clive Cussler meets Andy Weir.

When a Kingfisher Seven rocket explodes in spectacular and very public fashion during a routine test launch, the billionaire owner of Kingfisher Aerospace, Helena Nash, wants answers. What really caused the explosion? How can her team prevent it from happening again? And with environmental activists agitating outside their headquarters and a government deadline looming, will this one mistake doom Kingfisher's chance to dominate the new space race? Although Nash had initially hired Jake Moran and his company to provide launch support for their weather satellites, she realizes his military background also makes him the perfect person to conduct a shadow investigation to discover how her rocket failed. But after Moran's helicopter is brought down under suspicious circumstances, he and Nash begin to believe the rocket explosion wasn't merely a technical failure. With his trusted team, Moran quickly begins to tease apart the outside forces working to stop Kingfisher: a group of international hackers bent on disrupting the global space race and settling an old score with Jake. As these threats converge on the Kingfisher Seven and the city of Houston, countless lives are at risk, and Jake must race to halt a plot that could cripple the US aerospace industry and terrorize the nation. Shawn Klomparens, a writer, technology consultant, and leader of the Digital Communications team of the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, wrote KINGFISHER SEVEN from his home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.