Ascent (novel)

Ascent
First edition (publ. Jonathan Cape)
AuthorJed Mercurio
PublisherJonathan Cape
Publication date
April 3, 2007
ISBN978-0-224-07286-1

Ascent is a 2007 secret history novel by British writer Jed Mercurio. It follows the career of Yevgeni Yeremin, an orphan of Stalingrad, from his days as a MiG-15 pilot in the Korean War to his later years as a cosmonaut.