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Red Heroin (1980)

by Jerry Pournelle
(#1 in 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 and LUCIFER'S HAMMER. Includes a new Afterword by the author.

On FOOTFALL: 'Rousing... The Best of the Genre'
- The New York Times

On LUCIFER'S HAMMER: 'A megaton of suspenseful excitement.'
- Library Journal

On Jerry Pournelle's science fiction: 'A rousing adventure, yet with something to say about the old-fashioned virtues -- courage and honor'
- Asimov's SF Magazine