First on the Moon

The year is the near future. The space race has reached its boiling point, and America is about to launch the first manned mission to the Moon. Commander Adam Crag has spent over a year training with three other astronauts, all of them thoroughly vetted, all of them the best men America could find. But shortly after liftoff, Crag discovers there's a saboteur among his crew - a Soviet agent hidden in plain sight, someone chosen to ensure the mission fails and gives the Reds control of the Moon. As the rocket tears through space toward an uncharted destination, Crag must identify the traitor before they can sabotage the mission. Every man is a suspect. Every conversation could be a lie. And there's no way to run from the truth when you're millions of miles from home. This is Cold War paranoia reimagined as a locked-room thriller set in the void of space, written decades before Apollo 11 made Sutton's imagination into history. It captures an era when the Moon was still a dream, and the stakes of reaching it were nothing less than the fate of the world.