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Torus
22000 miles high, a satellite somersaults out of control...
For Harry Dysan, maverick director of the National Security Agency, the news is very bad indeed. The satellite flaunts a hole punched by a weapon that makes all others obsolete. With devastating precision, the torus bean can focus and project the energy of an atom bomb into outer space.
Determined to unlock the secrets of the ultimate space weapon, Dysan finds the one person who can trace its source. But Lesa Wessex, a brilliant data scanner and refugee from Vietnam, has her own reasons for helping him. And as their joint hunt for the torus leads them to a remote island in the Pacific, it becomes clear that the satellite was merely target practice...
For Harry Dysan, maverick director of the National Security Agency, the news is very bad indeed. The satellite flaunts a hole punched by a weapon that makes all others obsolete. With devastating precision, the torus bean can focus and project the energy of an atom bomb into outer space.
Determined to unlock the secrets of the ultimate space weapon, Dysan finds the one person who can trace its source. But Lesa Wessex, a brilliant data scanner and refugee from Vietnam, has her own reasons for helping him. And as their joint hunt for the torus leads them to a remote island in the Pacific, it becomes clear that the satellite was merely target practice...
- GenresScience FictionThriller
352 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1991
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James Follett
49 books38 followersJames Follett (not "Follet") was an author and screenwriter, born in 1939 in Tolworth, England.
Follett became a full-time fiction writer in 1976, after resigning from contract work as a technical writer for the British Ministry of Defence. He has wrote over 20 novels, several television scripts (including episodes of the BBC's Blake's 7), and many radio dramas. Follett was one of the 400 most popular British authors, measured by the numbers of books borrowed from public libraries in the UK, having spent 11 years in the public lending right's top two bands of authors.
Follett became a full-time fiction writer in 1976, after resigning from contract work as a technical writer for the British Ministry of Defence. He has wrote over 20 novels, several television scripts (including episodes of the BBC's Blake's 7), and many radio dramas. Follett was one of the 400 most popular British authors, measured by the numbers of books borrowed from public libraries in the UK, having spent 11 years in the public lending right's top two bands of authors.
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July 22, 2025
First time I have read a book from this author and it won’t be the last one. A slower read but an enjoyable one would recommend to any one who is a fan of older sifi
June 5, 2020
Good book. Was really confused when I got to part 2. It was really good but I was like what, how does this have anything to do with part 1. It was like a completely different book. Part of me wish that she got to face all the guys, to see the shock on there faces. Honestly I’m fine with Diem dying, he deserved what was coming to him. I figured little Suzie would still be alive, but I didn’t think Marie would have kept her, glad she got her shit together but that doesn’t make it right what she helped do to that family. Happy Lesa found a guy that she could trust.
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June 21, 2015
Interesting concept, reasonably faced paced. Typical James Follett book but not exceptional. Good read.
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