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Aceleración (Judd Bell & Corey Purchase, #1)

Aceleración (Judd Bell & Corey Purchase, #1)

Steve Worland

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140 valoraciones·30 reseñas

Un ASTRONAUTA en horas bajas. Una MISIÓN: buscar y destruir un transbordador espacial secuestrado. La CARGA: uranio-235 con capacidad para arrasar Manhattan. En JUEGO: la mujer que ama y el destino de una ciudad. Abróchate el cinturón para un viaje supersónico. Desde Cabo Cañaveral hasta el desierto...

páginas
344
Format
Paperback
Publicado
2012-08-22
Editorial
Penguin Australia
ISBN
9781921901102

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Steve  Worland
Steve Worland

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Steve Worland has worked extensively in film and television in Australia and the USA. He has written scripts for Working Title and Icon Productions, worked in script development for James Cameron’s Lightstorm and wrote Fox Searchlight’s Bootmen, which won five Australian Film Institute awards.Steve also wrote the actio...

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Sue Gerhardt Griffiths
Sue Gerhardt Griffiths·2 years ago
4.5 stars

Fast paced and action-packed. Loved it!

Look forward to the next instalment.


Listened to the audiobook on BorrowBox
Published by Bolinda audio
Narrated by Sean Mangan
Duration: 9 hrs, 43 min. 1.50x Speed
Julie
Julie·12 years ago
Before I dive into this review, I have a little story to tell about this book. I was looking for something to read last month and I came across this book on my "To Read" list. So I grab my Nook and go to download it. But it's not available! And I hate it when that happens. For some reason, I see it as a challenge ... OH, you don't want me to read this book, Barnes & Noble?!? Well, guess what, I'm totally going to use my Kindle app then!! That will show B & N! Read about how I finally was...
Choopie
Choopie·12 years ago
You never know from one minute to the next how things will work out as the author takes you on a hair raising ride in Velocity with some humor thrown in to lighten the situation. Our 2 protagonists and Spike the dog are saved several times by very believable simple solutions from what often look like no way out moments.

A quick and entertaining read ending with a cliff hanger lol.

Combustion here I come :-)
Tyson Adams
Tyson Adams·12 years ago
Whenever there is a new thriller author on the block, especially if they are Australian, there is always someone drawing a comparison to Matthew Reilly. You can just about guarantee that this comparison will be drawn by someone who hasn't read Matthew Reilly's books or hasn't read the new author's book/s. Finally there is an author with whom this comparison is valid.

Well worth the read.
Josh
Josh·12 years ago
VELOCITY is big on action - a non stop joyride from NASA headquarters to the barren landscape of central Australia where theft knows no bounds and a burning desire for vengeance reins supreme. Astronaut Judd Bell is plagued by his insecurities and haunted by the untimely loss of a close friend. His crippling dependency on workplace romance turned live-in partner, Rhonda is unhealthy - not only driving him to distraction but driving away the one thing that holds the fabric of his existence togeth...
Caroline
Caroline·12 years ago
I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads.I regret that I didn't read this book sooner! And this NEEDS to be made into a movie, cause it's the perfect action movie! It's jampacked with excitement from the beginning, it's funny, it's dangerous, it even includes love - And it takes you to the extreme.The book is mainly about thirty year-old astronaut Judd Bell, and in the beginning of the book he witnesses his best friend die in the explosion of the Columbia, and he and his girlf...
Tantri Setyorini
Tantri Setyorini·13 years ago
My giveaway copy already arrive. When I read all the reviews, I was a little surprised. Just 10 reviews! Only 10? Why? It's a great book with proper research. Did anyone else read Velocity? I don't ask to those teens who adores YA. Yes, they wrote the most reviews. But they read and praised the worst books I ever read. I'm asking this to all adult readers who love suspense, thriller, or any similar genre. Come on, it's really worth reading. It's what I call 'book that informed you some knowledge...
Balthazar Lawson
Balthazar Lawson·13 years ago
I always enjoy a good adventure/thriller/action read and this book as it all. Boring people will say "oh that can't happen" but it's fiction and with fiction anything can happen. That's what I like about this book. It's easy to read and totally enjoyable.
Shelleyrae at Book'd Out
Shelleyrae at Book'd Out·13 years ago
I wasn't sure what to expect from Velocity but it's endorsed by Hugh Jackman and that's good enough for me! Having lost his nerve after witnessing the death of his best friend in the explosion that destroyed the Columbia, NASA astronaut Judson Bell realises, when he crashes the simulated space shuttle, Discovery for the third time, that he won't ever make it back into space. When the Atlantis is cleared for a the next mission, Judd's newly ex girlfriend and fellow astronaut, Rhonda, is named as ...
Bree T
Bree T·13 years ago
Judd Bell used to have it all. He was the top of his game as an astronaut, the man of the moment. And he had a beautiful, smart girlfriend named Rhonda who worked along side of him at NASA. There was no denying that Judd Bell was going places.But then the space shuttle Columbia is lost, taking with it Judd’s best friend and the man of the moment loses his mojo. His career is suddenly going in a downward spiral, not rising up through the roof and it’s Rhonda that is rising. When she is chosen to ...