The inside story of the most expensive and controversial military program in history, as told by those who lived it. The F-35 has changed allied combat warfare. But by the time it’s completed, it will cost more than the Manhattan Project and the B-2 Stealth Bomber. It has been subject to the most aggressive cyberattacks in history from China, Russia, North Korea, and others. Its stealth technology required nearly 9 million lines of code; NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover required 2.5 million. And it was this close to failure. F-35 is the only inside look at the most advanced aircraft in the world and the historic project that built it, as told by those who were intimately involved in its design, testing, and production. Based on the authors' personal experience and over 100+ interviews, F-35 pulls back the curtain on one of the most heavily criticized government programs in history from start to finish: the dramatic flights that won Lockheed Martin the contract over Boeing; the debates and decisions over capabilities; feats of software, hardware, and aeronautical engineering that made it possible; how the project survived the Nunn-McCurdy breach; the conflicts among all three branches of the U.S. military, between the eight other allied nation partners, and against spy elements from enemies. For readers of Skunk Works by Ben Rich and The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes, F-35 will pique the interest of airplane enthusiasts, defense industry insiders, military history aficionados, political junkies, and general nonfiction readers.  

Drama starring Philip Caland and Forest Whitaker. Fashion designer Amer Atrash (Caland) has become so immersed in his business that he has neglected his wife Sherry (Virginia Madsen) and their young daughter. When Sherry decides that enough is enough and asks her husband to leave the family home, he finds himself confronting a dark secret from his past: a hit-and-run incident in which he knocked down a pedestrian, Philip Blackman (Forest Whitaker), leaving him a paraplegic. Convinced that his failings in life might be the result of bad karma, Amer sets out to track down Philip and put right his wrongdoing.