In the dying days of the Soviet Union, a Russian mobster sets in motion a daring plan to steal a dangerous prize from a secret naval base. In a desolate forest in Imperial Russia, a peasant and his son are caught at ground zero of a fifteen megaton explosion. The two events are joined by a desperate struggle for an artifact that could destroy the world, an artifact that fell out of a CRUEL SKY.CRUEL SKY is an action-packed race through Russia's darkest corners that brings the unsettling mysteries of The X-Files to world of The Hunt for Red October.Steven Lassiter is a former U.S. naval officer who has published scores of short stories in markets as diverse as INTERZONE, POLYPHONY, and PARADOX, as well as several DAW original anthologies. His short fiction has won honorable mention in THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION and THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR.
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- Release Date 12/20/2011
- Author Steven Lassiter
- Language English
- Company Blue Shark Publishing
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