Scifi Mastodon, please come to my aid! I am trying to remember the name of a scifi novel.
The protagonist is a teenager boy, whose father is a chief executive at NASA.
A villainous woman is staging a coup to take over the US.
The father wants to get his son to safety. At midnight he takes his son to NASA's electromagnetic launcher, sending him to the small lunar colony.
Ring any bells?
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It has been answered by https://spacey.space/@ScriptJoy@mastodon.online . It was ‘Apollo’s Outcasts’ by Allen Steele