- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Random House UK; First Edition edition (Aug 27 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0434267678
- ISBN-13: 978-0434267675
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 635 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,854,599 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Flight time from London to Sydney: ninety minutes. Sabre 005, a synergetic, air-breathing rocket engine, that will revolutionise air travel as the world knows it. Paul Santos, a French engineer, developed the aircraft. A jet in the atmosphere and a rocket in space, Sabre 005 is set for its first ever commercial test flight - and its fare-paying passengers are already scheduled for one year's time. Joe Yavanoski, a union boss forced to retire, knows the threat Sabre 005 poses. Its success will spell the death of his country's former great aircraft industry and the loss of hundred of thousand of jobs, including that of top engineer Jean Lesseps. Together, Yavanoski and Lesseps hatch a plan to shatter the public's confidence forever - the perfect undetectable bomb that will wipe out Sabre 005, its passengers and its crew, once and for all. All they have to do is get on board ...
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Thrilling and futuristic aviation thriller!, July 6 2003
By Mr N Forbes-warren "author of RESURGENCE and ... - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sabre (Hardcover)
A fast-paced, witty and thrilling sci-fi technothriller which would make a top movie! The story was written in 1997 and is set in 2021 and details an Anglo-French spaceplane project designed to revolutionise air travel. However, the American air industry, entering a recession, is not happy and a group of extremists decide to hatch a plot to smuggle a bomb on board and discredit the Sabre for good. Add to this a subplot of an oil-drilling concern working in Australia who are unwittingly drawn into the bomb plot and you have more twists along the way. The space sequences are excellent and very feasible and well-researched, there are brilliant flashes of imagination where future technology is concerned which in some cases have come true -Memcorders, which are camcorders which record on to a small memory card(has he predicted digital cameras here or video messaging?!); digital memopads(PDAs!), networked computer gaming and HEATHROW TERMINAL SIX?! You never know one day . . .), yet traffic on the M25 motorway, even in 2021 is still a big problem! Add to all this the subplot of Jez, a teenage spaceplane freak who wins a TV competition to fly to Australia on the Sabre and who unwittingly becomes the hero of the day and you have a winning novel! All in all, a highly recommended read. Fans of American writers Dale Brown and Clive Cussler will enjoy this, but it will also appeal to the sci-fi fraternity in its visionary output of a possible future. Highly recommended
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