"Hickam has a wild imagination and a keen eye for thescience behind the fiction." --JAVIER GRILLO-MARXUACH, writer & producer on Lost and Helix, creator of TheMiddlemanCrater Trueblood hasto rescue his ex-girlfriend . . . and the entire human race.Maria Medaris is the 21-year-old matriarch of the mostpowerful family on the moon--gorgeous, powerful, and high-maintenance. When sheis kidnapped by green-lipped, gene-splicing scientists, Maria's only hope turnsout to be the very man she once spurned: Crater Trueblood.Crater and the Lunar Rescue Company must rescue Maria beforeshe joins forces with the lunatics who have taken her hostage and aim to makeher queen.Turns out more than Maria is at stake: the planet Earth,majestically rising over the lunar horizon, is in the crosshairs of an asteroidengineered by Maria's abductors. If Crater can't stop it, humanity on Earthwill be destroyed. The fate of two worlds hangs in the balance . . . and theclock is ticking."Hickam again displays a knack for suspenseful scenes out inthe 'big suck' of space . . ." --KIRKUS Reviews"An exciting romp through a surprisinglyrealistic future." --JASPER T. SCOTT, author of the Dark Space series