Phantom Orbit: A Thriller Fern Haught shapes stories of loss and

shapes stories of loss and legacy

A Best Book of the Year: Washington Post

a fictionalized seventeen-year-old noble woman

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Phantom Orbit: A Thriller Fern Haught shapes stories of loss andDavid Ignatius is known for his uncanny ability, in novel after novel, to predict the next great national security headline. In Phantom Orbit, he presents a story both searing and topical, with stakes as far reaching as outer space. It follows Ivan Volkov, a Russian student in Beijing, who discovers an unsolved puzzle in the writings of the seventeenth century astronomer Johannes Kepler. He takes the puzzle to a senior scientist in the Chinese space