jeriendhal | Baen Books, here I come!

Had this High Concept pop into my head over lunch. Might give this a try for this year's NanoWriMo. Or if not, I might take it slow and then try and get an agent's attention with it.

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Warbird

Air Force Captain Alexandria Wing-Davis is caught between several worlds.

As a Chinese born American, she has only fading memories of the country of her birth, growing up in a United States that's both hostile and fearful of China's growing superpower status.

As a USAF combat pilot she's never flown an aircraft into the heat of battle, only guided drones to drop their payloads on targets half a world away.

As a NASA astronaut, she's only flown in space aboard Russian rockets, as NASA's prestige continues to slip along with the possibility of it ever re-developing a manned space vehicle again.

Now she finds herself in a desperate race to revive a secret military Space Shuttle, as a military coup in China results in the launch of an armed space platform manned by desperate fanatics, fanatics with nuclear weapons and an agenda to halt China's slide into openness and liberalization. Soon Alexandria is in the fight of her life to pilot the USAF Intrepid towards the rogue platform in an attempt to stop it before it can plunge the world into World War III.