Crater Trueblood and the Lunar Rescue Company - Homer Hickam

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n nHickam has a wild imagination and a keen eye for the science behind the fiction. --JAVIER GRILLO-MARXUACH, writer & producer on Lost and Helix, creator of The Middlemann nCrater Trueblood has to rescue his ex-girlfriend . . . and the entire human race.n nMaria Medaris is the 21-year-old matriarch of the most powerful family on the moon--gorgeous, powerful, and high-maintenance. When she is kidnapped by green-lipped, gene-splicing scientists, Maria's only hope turns out to be the very man she once spurned: Crater Trueblood.n nCrater and the Lunar Rescue Company must rescue Maria before she joins forces with the lunatics who have taken her hostage and aim to make her queen.n nTurns out more than Maria is at stake: the planet Earth, majestically rising over the lunar horizon, is in the crosshairs of an asteroid engineered by Maria's abductors. If Crater can't stop it, humanity on Earth will be destroyed.n nThe fate of two worlds hangs in the balance . . . and the clock is ticking.n nHickam again displays a knack for suspenseful scenes out in the 'big suck' of space . . . --KIRKUS Reviewsn nAn exciting romp through a surprisingly realistic future. --JASPER T. SCOTT, author of the Dark Space seriesn