David Ignatius is an acclaimed journalist and expert on the CIA.

A fiction author, as well, with 11 novels in the suspense/espionage fiction genre.

This is the first for me — and probably the last. The story telling was TOO SLOW.

An un-Thriller.

Phantom Orbit is his 2024 book. And it is very much up-to-date in terms of technology. The detail, relevancy, and realism are impressive.

Threats to the American GPS system and satellites, especially from Russia and China, is the main thread.

It follows Ivan Volkov, a Russian student in Beijing …

The years pass, and they are not kind to Volkov.

After the loss of his son, a prosecutor who’d been too tough on corruption, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Volkov makes the fraught decision to contact the CIA.

He writes: Satellites are your enemies, especially your own…Hidden codes can make time stop and turn north into south…If you are smart, you will find me.