Spin

Written by Patricia Cornwell

Narrated by January LaVoy

A USA Today bestseller.

Captain Calli Chase races against time to thwart a plot that leaves the fate of humanity hanging in the balance in this new thriller from international bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.

In the aftermath of a NASA rocket launch gone terribly wrong, Captain Calli Chase comes face-to-face with her missing twin sister—as well as the startling truth of who they really are. Now, a top secret program put in motion years ago has spun out of control, and only Calli can redirect its course.

Aided by cutting-edge technologies, the NASA investigator and scientist turned Space Force pilot sets out on a frantic search for the missing link between the sabotaged rocket launch and her predetermined destiny…a search that someone else seems very interested in stopping.

From NASA to the Chase family farm, to the White House to distant orbits of space, Calli plays a high-stakes game of hide-and-seek with a cunning and ruthless adversary. One wrong move will unleash cataclysmic consequences reaching far beyond the boundaries of Earth.

This heart-pounding Captain Chase thriller from Patricia Cornwell will leave readers desperate for more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Release date: Jan 12, 2021
• ISBN: 9781799750789

Patricia Cornwell

Patricia Cornwell is recognized as one of the world’s top bestselling crime authors with novels translated into thirty-six languages in more than 120 countries. Her novels have won numerous prestigious awards including the Edgar, the Creasey, the Anthony, the Macavity, and the Prix du Roman d’Aventure. Beyond the Scarpetta series, Patricia has written a definitive book about Jack the Ripper, a biography, and three more fiction series among others. Cornwell, a licensed helicopter pilot and scuba diver, actively researches the forensic technologies that inform her work. She was born in Miami, grew up in Montreat, North Carolina, and now lives and works in Boston. 

Reviews for Spin

[paulagalvan-323293 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This second cyberspace thriller in the Captain Chase series takes up right where the first book left off. Both books are uniquely spaced-out (pun intended), so you'll be lost if you don't read them in order. Calli again gets plugged into all kinds of super secret electronic devices. Most of the story occurs during a blizzard while Captain Chase chases Lex, the boy-genius, and battles arch-rival Neva Rong. This author has undoubtedly become fond of acronyms. They are entertaining in a juvenile kind of way.

[marklacy-355086 · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

I had my reservations about "Quantum". I was willing to overlook how much was not explained, because I believed "Spin" would give me the resolution I wanted as a reader. But I couldn't finish "Spin". We all know how acronym-happy the Federal government is. Nevertheless, the author's overabundance of whimsical acronyms for various pieces of advanced technology developed by the government just felt silly to me. And there was simply not enough desire on my part for understanding how everything would play out in "Spin" to keep reading it.

[waldhaus1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Crammed with acronyms to make all sorts of high tech gear. The protagonist Karma is talked with nullifying the efforts of a shadowy and unexplained figure named Neva Wrong.
The story isn't as strong as the imagined high tech gear. A lot of details about space flight and for some reason units are given in both metric and British.