David Ignatius is known for his uncanny ability, in novel after novel, to predict the next great national security headline. In Phantom Orbit, he presents a story both searing and topical, with stakes as far-reaching as outer space. It follows Ivan Volkov, a Russian student in Beijing, who discovers an unsolved puzzle in the writings of the seventeenth-century astronomer Johannes Kepler. He takes the puzzle to a senior scientist in the Chinese space...

A cyber criminal is using satellites to steal billions from the world's biggest companies, and Benji Franklin is called upon to use his skills to trace the money--the problem is there is a time limit and his mother will not let him miss any more school, so he enlists his entire school to help.

A military space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the upper atmosphere, is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. Twelve miles from the crash site, an inexplicable and deadly phenomenon terrorizes the residents of a sleepy desert town in Arizona, leaving only two survivors: an elderly addict and a newborn infant. The United States government is forced to mobilize Project Wildfire, a top-secret emergency response protocol. Four...

CIA operative Kirk McGarvey, newly elevated to the position of Deputy Director of Operations, is suspicious of a planned joint satellite launch between Japan and the U.S., and after a bomb intended for McGarvey is lobbed into a restaurant, killing his girlfriend and injuring his daughter, he realizes he is on the track of a terrorist who is targeting the White House.

When a Chinese Special Forces group targets Angel-12, an American intelligence satellite containing top secret intelligence technolgy, the ensuing 22,000-mile freefall lnads the bus-sized device somewhere in remote Siberia. Not far away, a Russian shadow government has captured the team of U.S. airmen sent to find it. With the stakes rising, U.S. Sgt. Major Eric Moyer and his Special Ops unit are deployed to secure the satellite and save their fellow...