At the End of the Orbit by Arthur C. Clarke - A man with a vendetta, Szabo Tibor, finds himself tasked with recovering a Russian space capsule near New Guinea—but his grudge against the Russians turns the operation into a slow and sinister act of revenge. When the capsule's hidden occupant, a desperate astronaut with only hours of oxygen left, begins a haunting, tapped-out dialogue, Tibor's dark intentions lead to a chilling and unforeseen reckoning.