Phantom Orbit: A Thriller Fern Haught recognizing when the government is

recognizing when the government is failing

Langston Hughes

He's a stranger in town

--Hayley Scrivenor

including the Chinese Zodiac

Phantom Orbit: A Thriller Fern Haught recognizing when the government isDavid Ignatius is known for his uncanny ability, in novel after novel, to predict the next great national security headline. In Phantom Orbit, he presents a story both searing and topical, with stakes as far reaching as outer space. It follows Ivan Volkov, a Russian student in Beijing, who discovers an unsolved puzzle in the writings of the seventeenth century astronomer Johannes Kepler. He takes the puzzle to a senior scientist in the Chinese space