The Outer Space Treaty prohibits nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons from being placed in or used from Earth's orbit. What no one could have imagined was that mankind could conceive of the simplest weapon ever deployed – one with extinction power – to launch from space. And yet, it’s not nuclear, biological, or chemical. The military named this weapon “Rods from God.”
Collins’s sixth book in his Mark Rollins Adventure Series has two women drone pilots battling in outer space to defend the country. One is an ex-fighter pilot who after a crash now flies from a wheelchair.
The Florida-based female drone crew from hometown Nashville, Tennessee is drafted to defend the country from a rogue military element who is threatening to use military force in order to stop the impeachment of the President. The rogue element’s weapons are twenty-foot tungsten rods. A single rod dropped from orbit would impact Earth at ten times the speed of sound with the impact of a nuclear weapon. As weapons are readied, our heroines find they are Beyond Visual Range.