Red Heroin

When engineer and army vet Paul Crane agrees to accompany his police officer friend on a night cruise, he never expected a deadly shoot-out would lead to his being recruited in a CIA sting operation involving China and the heroin trade.  There is high-voltage suspense from start to finish in this novel by Jerry Pournelle, author of many Co-Dominium novels and co-author with Larry Niven of THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE, LUCIFER'S HAMMER, FOOTFALL and more. Robert A. Heinlein called it "A hell of a good yarn ... the most realistic counter-espionage story I've read in a long, long time." Includes a new Afterword by the author.


"A hell of a good yarn ... the most realistic counter-espionage story I've read in a long, long time." 

- Robert A. Heinlein


"Jerry Pournelle's trademark is first-rate action against well-realized backgrounds of hard science and hardball politics."

- David Drake, author of HAMMER'S SLAMMERS


On FOOTFALL: "Rousing ... The Best of the Genre" 

- The New York Times


On LUCIFER'S HAMMER: "A megaton of suspenseful excitement." 

- Library Journal