"...a thriller that grips and absolutely doesn't let go. "
-Kirkus Reviews

"...so compelling, it's tough to look away. "
-People Weekly Magazine

"Exclamation points abound, and the TV movie can't be far behind. "
-Gallery Magazine

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Booklist - Brad Hooper
(Booklist, the magazine the New York Times calls "an acquisitions bible for public and school librarians nationwide," is the review journal of the American Library Association.)
MEDUSA'S CHILD
John J. Nance

Nance's best-selling thriller, PANDORA'S CLOCK which concerned an airline passenger afflicted with a deadly virus, recently aired as a television miniseries. Nance, an experienced air-force and commercial pilot as well as a broadcast journalist (including service as aviation consultant for ABC News), brings his aviation expertise once more to bear on another terrifying fictional work that could have been taken from today's headlines. For his livelihood, pilot and small businessman Scott McKay leases a converted Boeing 727 and ferries cargo across the country much like a truck driver. On one particular night, however, he comes to realize that his cargo hold contains a thermonuclear bomb a modern instrument of destruction dubbed the Medusa device and capable of an incredible act of terrorism - destroying every computer chip within a very wide radius. The effort to incapacitate the bomb before it can detonate is the warp and wool of an exciting plot that offers hours of pure diversion.

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School Library Journal
MEDUSA'S CHILD
John J. Nance

From the intriguing jacket cover to the final page, suspense abounds in this thrilling novel. When Scott McKay, captain of his private cargo plane, takes on two passengers and their cargo crates, he and his crew discover that they are in for the flight of their lives.

While over Washington, DC, a strange noise comes from deep inside the crate owned by Vivian Henry. It is the voice of her husband, a nuclear scientist who was believed dead. The people onboard a re informed that the shipment that they are carrying is a fully armed Medusa device, a thermonuclear bomb that will not only kill millions of people, but can also destroy every computer chip on the continent, blasting the country back into the Stone Age. It is set to go off within hours. Panic erupts in the world of nuclear scientists who used to work for Dr. Henry, for they realize that this threat is a real possibility. Fear spreads through the White House and the general public, as a group of rogue military officers conspire to secure the bomb at any cost. Captain McKay and his crew soon discover that they are being deceived, and that everyone's life is in danger. Mistrust, deceit, and spine-chilling action flow from every page of this story.
Anita Short, W. T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA

So compelling it's tough to look away.

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