Ascent - Jed Mercurio

A truly stunning novel of one man's dangerous obsession with immortality, from the BAFTA award-winning creator of Bodyguard and Line of Duty ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S '1000 NOVELS EVERYONE MUST READ' `A completely gripping, read-at-once novel' The Times Yefgenii Yeremin is a flyer and a phantom.

Destined to go down in Soviet history books as `Ivan the Terrible', the most deadly fighter pilot of the Korean War, one moment of madness sees Yefgenii throwing his reputation to the wind.

Exiled to a remote Arctic base, his name unknown and victories uncelebrated, he must endure a fate worse than death: anonymity.

But when a man arrives from Moscow's Space Committee in search of a volunteer prepared to sacrifice himself for his country, Yefgenii seizes his one last chance of immortality.