The Minotaur by Stephen Coonts

The Minotaur by Stephen Coonts

At the height of the Cold War, Captain Jake Grafton becomes entangled in the hunt for a spy selling high-tech military secrets to the Soviet Union.

Naval pilot Jake Grafton flies fighter jets with ice water in his veins. But when he's assigned a desk job in the Pentagon as the head of a top-secret stealth bomber program, his nerve is tested as never before. Colleagues die mysteriously, test flights are sabotaged, and the program is threatened at every level. America faces a deadly, catastrophic threat. If Grafton can't infiltrate a web of espionage and counter-espionage centered round the deadly traitor, code-named the Minotaur, embedded in the highest reaches of the U.S. government, he stands to lose much more than just his career.

The Minotaur is an exhilarating mixture of cutting-edge aviation, spies, and counter-spies, all set in the complex world of military technology R&D. In this unique espionage thriller written early in his career, Coonts's extraordinary talent is brilliantly displayed.

Stephen Coonts is the author of a number of best-selling novels, including The Disciple, The Assassin, and the Deep Black and Saucers series, as well as a number of other works that have been translated and published all over the world. Combat, On Glorious Wings, Victory, and War in the Air are four anthologies he edited. He is a graduate of West Virginia University and the University of Colorado School of Law, as well as a former navy aviator and Vietnam combat veteran.