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Medallion Press
June 2008
On Sale: June 1, 2008
500 pages
ISBN: 1933836296
Hardcover
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1985, a year before the Chernobyl disaster. Hidden away in a wine cellar in the western Ukraine, Chernobyl engineer Mihaly Horvath, brother of a Kiev Militia detective Lazlo Horvath, reveals details of unnecessary risks being taken at the Chernobyl plant. Concerned for his brother and family, Lazlo investigatesirritating superiors, drawing the attention of a CIA operative, raising the hackles of an old school KGB major, and discovering his brothers secret affair with Juli Popovics, a Chernobyl technician. When the Chernobyl plant explodes scores of lives are changed forever. As Lazlo questions his brothers death in the blast, Juli arrives in Kiev to tell the detective she carries his brothers child. If their lives arent complicated enough, KGB major Grigor Komarov enters the fray, reawakening a hard-line past to manipulate deadly resources.Now the Ukraine is not only blanketed with deadly radiation, but becomes a killing ground involving pre-perestroika factions in disarray, a Soviet government on its last legs, and madmen hungry for power as they eye Gorbachevs changes.With a poisoned environment at their backs and a killer snapping at their heels, Lazlo and Juli flee for their livesand their lovetoward the Western frontier.
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