Jack Spartan Varaci Runner

The twelfth mission of the new Advanced Space Shuttle program begins without a hitch but something goes horribly wrong as the shuttle vanishes at T+15 minutes after launch. The second in command pilot Jack Spartan awakens in the wreckage of the shuttle Victory only to find himself in a horrifying survival situation. His crew and Victory are gone but he is somehow alive in the bowels of a gargantuan space freighter. Captured by the space freighters crew he is unable to communicate with them so he is deemed a stowaway and is sold into conscript slavery. He must use every bit of his intellect military training and martial art skills to survive the deadly challenges he encounters. How will he escape his fraudulent conscript sentence? How will he survive the planets vicious terraformed jungles and vast deserts and rescue the friends he had to leave behind? Written for those who crave a degree of technical and scientific realism as well as for your average sci-fi reader Jack Spartan Varaci Runner is based on plausible scientific and engineering theory.