Storming Intrepid is the name of a 1988 novel by Payne Harrison

Payne Harrison

Payne Harrison is an American author. Harrison is a New York Times bestselling writer, and author of five novels in the genres of mystery, espionage, techno-thriller and military.-Bibliography:...

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Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...

 era technothriller. The plot centers on the in-flight hijacking of the United States space shuttle Intrepid by a Soviet agent and the United States race to retrieve it before the Soviets can return it to earth. It was followed by a sequel Thunder of Erebus, focusing on a conflict in Antarctica; this novel differs in tone and characterization, suggesting the work of a ghost writer.