Holdout// credits: Jeffrey Kluger

"[An] Action-Packed Thriller of a novel."- TIME

"Just terrific... Readers will be flipping the pages as fast as they can to find out what happens next."- BOOKLIST

"Interlacing high-stakes action with ethical urgency, Holdout is a large-hearted thriller."- JESSICA BRUDER, AUTHOR OF NOMADLAND

When evil forces are going unchecked on Earth, a principled astronaut makes a split-second decision to try to seek justice right where she sits in the International Space Station.

Walli Beckwith graduated at the top of her class from the United States Naval Academy. So when she refuses to leave her post aboard the International Space Station following an accident that forces her fellow astronauts to evacuate, her American and Russian colleagues are mystified. For Walli, the matter at hand feels all to clear and terrifying for her to be worried about ruining her career. She is stuck in a space against time to save a part of the world that seems to have been forgotten - and also the life of the person she loves the most.

JEFFREY KLUGER is editor for large at time magazine and author or co-author of twelve books, including; Apollo 13, Apollo 8, and two novels for young adults. He has written more than forty cover stories for time of topics ranging from space to human behavior to climate to medicine. Along with others at time, Kluger won an Emmy for the web series; A year in space. He consulted on and appeared in the Tom Hanks movie Apollo 13.

(this book is not written by me. I just re-wrote it for others to enjoy <3)