Holdout
  • Published: 15 November 2022
  • ISBN: 9780593184714
  • Imprint: Dutton
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $35.00

Holdout

A Novel

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NOW IN PAPERBACK: When evil forces are going unchecked on Earth, a principled astronaut makes a spilt-second decision to try to seek justice in the only place she knows how—the International Space Station.

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When evil forces are going unchecked on Earth, a principled astronaut makes a spilt-second decision to try to seek justice in the only place she knows how—the International Space Station.

Walli Beckwith is a model astronaut. She graduated at the top of her class from the Naval Academy, had a successful career flying fighter jets, and has spent more than three hundred days in space. 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 too clear and terrifying for her to be worried about ruining her career. She is stuck in a race 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. She will go to any length necessary, using the only tool she has, to accomplish what she knows is right.
  • Published: 15 November 2022
  • ISBN: 9780593184714
  • Imprint: Dutton
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $35.00
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Praise for Holdout

Praise for Holdout:
 
"Kluger smoothly covers the technical aspects of life on the ISS and neatly contrasts international cooperation in space with conflict back on Earth. Readers who enjoyed Kluger’s depiction of the Apollo 13 rescue effort will appreciate the reciprocity of a rescue of Earth from space."
—Publishers Weekly
 
"Interlacing high-stakes action with ethical urgency, Holdout is a large-hearted thriller whose reluctant heroine—the astronaut-turned-activist Walli Beckwith—reminds us that the least likely platforms can be used to spark change.”
—Jessica Bruder, author of Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century 
 
“Holdout is a beautiful, character-driven story that moves the reader seamlessly from the Amazon basin to the International Space Station. It is brilliant, both technically in its descriptions of an astronaut’s mission, and as a literary tour de force that moves the human heart.”
—Admiral James Stavridis USN, Supreme Allied Commander at NATO (2009-2013), coauthor of 2034: A Novel of the Next World War