High Aggression — Don Pendleton

MAXIMUM EXPOSURE

A hard probe into a Siberian opium smuggling operation becomes an international crisis when Russian gangsters hijack the remote-access hardware for a U.S.-Russian spy satellite. Intended to monitor Chinese aggression against Tibet, the unit has been bartered to the highest bidder.

But when the plane carrying the stolen satellite unit and its American expert crashes in the Himalayas, Bolan embarks on a brutal search-and-destroy rescue mission -- facing extremes of weather and impossible odds on dangerous terrain -- against an army prepared to reclaim the prize cargo at any cost.