Candace G. (Ogre) reviewed on 5/7/2014 + 1568 more book reviews

It's terrible when Science Fiction writers predict the future---and get the dates wrong! Hogan predicted the end of the Soviet Union, but he thought it would take longer to self-destruct, and he thought they would show a last gasp of innovation and initiative before they bowed out.
Good hard science, and Hogan did extensive research into NASA, high-tech surveilance, and international security and politics.
The time is around 2015 or 2020, and the Soviet leaders insist that their giant space station is simply a peaceful, agrarian community. Other sides have suspicions. The CIA co-opts a rather unwilling scientist into helping their man find tyhe ringer on the station, but events get out of hand and they are both captured.
There are plots within plots, and no one can be trusted.


From back cover: It is the largest space construction ever launched. Twelve thousand people living inside a steel hub whose diameter is over onemile. Code named 'Mermaid,' it is a Soviet city in space containing parks, schools, shops, and farms... and it will soon change the world.
Lost inside this vast craft are an American scientist and a CIA operative, captured and imprisoned in a metal-lined gulag.
Only they can discover the true intent of the greatest space station Earth has ever seen as the Sovi9et Union teeters on the edge of political collapse and a last-gasp, a final ENDGAME ENIGMA.

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