Katya is a scientist, working on a top secret project for the Russian Empire. She's also desperate. Due to her classified knowledge of alternative worlds, she's being blackmailed into working as a spy - and her father's life is at stake. But Katya's assignment seems impossible.

She must hunt down a mysterious artifact that could give the dying Tzar his dearest wish - new life. But it's hidden on an alternate Earth, on an American controlled island. She'll have to go deep undercover to gain access to this prize. And Borodin, the Tzar's ruthless spymaster, has his own reasons for needing the object.

However, ambition blinds these men to the facts. The artifact will call down terror from the depths of space. If they use it, the Russian Empire, the Americans' beleaguered territories and all linked versions of earth face extinction. Katya discovers the truth with Jerry, an American survivalist based on the island. Together they must stop the artifact being activated, at any costs. Two civilizations depend upon it.

Published
August 8, 2016
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Gary Gibson

Gary Gibson is one of the UK's leading authors of hard science fiction, space opera and post-apocalyptic fiction with a career stretching over fifteen years and twelve books, including Stealing Light, Final Days and most recently Extinction Game, which received the coveted "starred review" from Publisher's Weekly. His most recent publication is Ghots Frequencies, published June 20th 2018. A physicist working on what she hopes will be a breakthrough in communications technology has to contend with the discovery that her research building may be haunted. Could there be link between a supposed haunting and the problems with her quantum…