The Defector by Chris Hadfield Groundswell Speaker 2024

The Defector by Chris Hadfield Groundswell Speaker 2024Israel, late 1973. As the Yom Kippur War flares into life, a state of the art Soviet MIG fighter is racing at breakneck speed over the arid scrublands below and promptly disappears. NASA Flight Controller and former US Navy test pilot Kaz Zemeckis watches the scene from the ground and is quickly pulled into a dizzying, high stakes game of spies, lies and a possible high level defection that plays out across three continents. The prize is beyond value:

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