Author's note

Trapped in the middle of a cold war, Nikolai watches as his nation is slowly poisoned by nuclear fallout, desperate for a way out.

Across the ocean, a reluctant diplomat is dispatched as the cold war begins to warm.

Amidst endless nuclear testing and ever-rising tensions, the world races inexorably towards a nuclear confrontation, one that Nikolai cannot hope to survive...unless he can make his way off the planet and into the safety of space before decades of radioactive fallout kills everything and everyone he knows.