elevision producer, screenwriter and novelist Michael Cassutt is also an acknowledged expert on the history of manned spaceflight, the author of the standard reference work Who`s Who in Space. Deke!, the acclaimed autobiography of legendary astronaut Donald K. Slayton, co-written by Cassutt, was hailed as riveting a must read by The Rocky Mountain News.Now with Missing Man, Michael Cassutt has crafted a high-tension thriller combining the corporate intrigue of John Grisham`s The Firm with the heart-stopping excitement of Apollo 13. When a veteran astronaut dies mysteriously during a routine training flight, Mark Koskinen, the rookie astronaut who survives the crash, finds himself caught up in a web of suspicion, intrigue and deception. Although the mounting evidence points to murder, powerful forces inside NASA are determined to keep the truth from getting out. Risking his career; and perhaps his life; Mark sets out to find the truth, with the help of a beautiful woman astronaut who had once been the dead man`s lover.