Frontier Av Patrick Chiles

<B>Near-future military adventure and political intrigue set against the backdrop of our majestic Solar System</B><BR><BR>THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THE STRONG OF HEART<BR><BR>Marshall Hunter only wanted to fly: the faster, the higher, the better.<BR><BR>On his first assignment aboard the patrol cruiser U.S.S. <i>Borman</i>, Ensign Hunter learns the novelty of Earth orbit wears off quickly. A life of rescuing wayward spacefarers and derelict satellites is far from the adventure he’d imagined as a young cadet.<BR><BR>His fortunes change when a pair of billionaire explorers are declared missing on an expedition to a nearby asteroid, one thought to hold minerals worth more than entire countries. With the couple out of contact and on a course that will eventually send them crashing into Mars, the nuclear-powered <i>Borman</i> is dispatched on an audacious high-speed interplanetary run to find them. Yet as Hunter and his crew approach the asteroid, the <i>Borman</i> itself becomes hopeless