The high wind blows
By: David Hill
Publisher: Puffin
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Auckland, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
ISBN-13: 9780141313368
Subjects: Launch complexes (Astronautics); Terrorists; Juvenile fiction; Artificial satellites; Space flight; Terrorism; Fiction
Description: Adam Cade, astronomy enthusiast, has won a chance to watch the launch of a satellite that will study the solar wind. Adam has barely arrived at Mt Dauntless Launch Station when he hears about a terrorist group, God's Soldiers, who believe that space exploration is bad. Adam is soon involved in a struggle that leads all the way to the Kennedy Space Centre. Can he help? Or will the space shuttle Discovery and its crew be destroyed? Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.
Notes: Novel for young adults.