![]() At the border, Gant and Anna are allowed to cross. ![]() Gant returns after finding Harris' body and knocks out Priabin, leaving him by the roadside. While Gant searches for Harris, Priabin rashly tries to force Anna to return to Moscow with him, despite her protests. Near the border, Priabin returns and kills Harris. Gant offers to arrange for the Company to release Anna as an informant, in exchange for Anna accompanying him over the border, to which Priabin reluctantly agrees. ![]() Priabin catches up with them and attempts to kill Gant, who points out that if he is killed or recaptured, Anna will also be killed by her handlers. Priabin discovers that Anna is helping Gant, and pursues them alone. A member of the Jewish dissident network finds Gant and delivers him to Anna, who arranges for them to travel by train to Leningrad, where Harris, a British agent, will drive Gant to the Finnish border. Meanwhile, Priabin has discovered that his lover, Anna, has been passing information to the Americans under the codename Burgoyne, but he keeps this to himself.Īfter Gant's escape, Anna is ordered by the British, under threat of death, to find and help Gant escape from the Soviet Union. Gant resists the interrogation, and eventually escapes from the KGB facility. In Moscow, Gant is interrogated by KGB Colonel Dmitri Priabin (who had a minor role in Firefox) and Soviet Air Force General Vladimirov, the officer charged with recovering the Firefox. Upon fleeing the lake, Gant is captured by the KGB and taken back to the Soviet Union, while a NATO task force attempts to recover the Firefox from the lake before its location is discovered by the Soviets. After a brief engagement with two Soviet MiG-25s, Gant lands the Firefox on a frozen lake in neutral Finland, whereupon the weight of the aircraft causes it to break through the ice and become submerged. At the climax of Firefox, Gant engaged in combat with a second MiG-31 the second novel begins mere moments later, with Gant discovering that his aircraft sustained damage in the dogfight and is losing fuel rapidly. Craig Thomas dedicated the first edition of the novel to actor/director/producer Clint Eastwood, who starred as Mitchell Gant in the film adaptation of the first novel, stating, "For Clint Eastwood - pilot of the Firefox".Īs with the first novel, the book focuses on the efforts of Mitchell Gant to steal the fictional prototype MiG-31 Firefox Soviet aircraft. Firefox Down is a 1983 novel by author Craig Thomas.
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