Kirov Saga: Devil's Garden (Kirov Series) (43 page)

“A very good plan, Mister Fedorov, but what if he
won’t
listen?”

Fedorov gave him a long look, but said nothing more.

The saga continues!

Dear Reader,

Yes…I meant to end this story by now, but events have taken longer
to relate than I expected, and Mister Fedorov has pulled the story to a place
it now needs to go before the end. So I invite you to spend just a little more
time with me, as I present yet one more volume of this strange tale.

Kirov Saga: Armageddon
Kirov
Series, Book VIII

The
lines of fate have brought the most
powerful ship in the world to a time and place where it can make decisive
changes to the history. Driven by his own inner demons, Captain Karpov now
believes that with
Kirov
in 1908 he is truly invincible, and his aim is
to impose his will on that unsuspecting world and reverse the cold fate of
Russian history from 1908 to the 21st century. But it is not just the fate of a
single nation at stake now, but that of all the world. What is it Karpov may
yet do to affect the outcome of the Great War in 2021? Or was he
responsible
for that war, a suspicion he has had all along?

Shocked
by Karpov’s betrayal, Anton Fedorov plans a mission to stop the Captain before
he can do irreversible damage to the meridians of history. Now Admiral Volsky
must do everything possible to launch this final mission. The nuclear attack
submarine
Kazan
has retired to a secure patrol in the Sea of Okhotsk
after joining Karpov in his duel with the US Pacific Fleet in 2021, yet the
submarine must now risk discovery to take on some very special new crewmembers
with a very unusual cargo. The journey to the Sea of Japan becomes a perilous
one when the Americans and Japanese of 2021 discover the location of the
submarine and make their own plans as well.

Join
Anton Fedorov, Admiral Volsky, Chief Dobrynin, Sergeant Troyak and Gennadi
Orlov aboard
Kazan
as they launch this last desperate mission to
confront the man, and the ship, that now threatens to change all history and
unravel the fabric of fate and time itself.

Coming
soon from the Writing Shop Press!

OTHER BOOKS BY JOHN SCHETTLER

Kirov

The battlecruiser
Kirov
is the most power surface combatant
that ever put to sea. Built from the bones of all four prior
Kirov
Class
battlecruisers, she is updated with Russia’s most lethal weapons, given back
her old name, and commissioned in the year 2020. A year later, with tensions
rising to the breaking point between Russia and the West,
Kirov
is
completing her final missile trials in the Arctic Sea when a strange accident
transports her to another time. With power no ship in the world can match, much
less comprehend, she must decide the fate of nations in the most titanic
conflict the world has ever seen—WWII.

Kirov II
–
Cauldron of Fire

Kirov
crosses the Atlantic to the Mediterranean Sea when she suddenly
slips in time again and re-appears a year later, in August of 1942. Beset with
enemies on every side and embroiled in one of the largest sea battles of the
war, the ship races for Gibraltar and the relatively safe waters of the
Atlantic. Meanwhile, the brilliant Alan Turing has begun to unravel the mystery
of what this ship could be, but can he convince the Admiralty? Naval action
abounds in this fast paced second volume of the
Kirov
series trilogy.

Kirov III
-
Pacific Storm

Admiral Tovey’s visit to Bletchley Park soon reaches an astounding
conclusion when the battlecruiser
Kirov
vanishes once again to a
desolate future. Reaching the Pacific the ship’s officers and crew soon learn
that
Kirov
has once again moved in time. Now First Officer Anton Fedorov
is shocked to learn the true source of the great variation in time that has led
to the devastated future they have come from and the demise of civilization
itself. They are soon discovered by a Japanese fleet and the ship now faces its
most dangerous and determined challenge ever when they are stalked by the
Japanese 5th Carrier Division and eventually confronted by a powerful enemy
task force led by the battleship Yamato, and an admiral determined to sink this
phantom ship, or die trying. In this amazing continuation to the popular
Kirov
series, the most powerful ships ever conceived by two different eras clash in a
titanic final battle that could decide the fate of nations and the world
itself.

Kirov Saga:
Men Of War
~
Kirov Series, Book IV

Kirov
returns home to a changed world in the year 2021, and as the
Russian Naval Inspectorate probes the mystery of the ship’s disappearance,
Anton Fedorov begins to unravel yet another dilemma—the secret of Rod 25. The
world is again steering a dangerous course toward the great war that blackened
the shores of a distant future glimpsed by the officers and crew. Fedorov has
come to believe that time is waiting on the resolution of one crucial
unresolved element from their journey to the past—the fate of Gennadi Orlov.

Join Admiral Leonid Volsky, Captain Vladimir Karpov, and Anton
Fedorov as they sleuth the mystery of Orlov’s fate and launch a mission to the
past to find him before the world explodes in the terror and fury of a great
air and naval conflict in the Pacific. It is a war that will span the globe
from the Gulf of Mexico to the Middle East and through the oil rich heart of
Central Asia to the wide Pacific, but somehow one man’s life holds the key to
its prevention. Yet other men are aware of Orlov’s identity as a crewman from
the dread raider they came to call
Geronimo
, and they too set their
minds on finding him first…in 1942! Men of war from the future and past now
join in the hunt while the military forces of Russia, China, and the West
maneuver to the great chessboard of impending conflict.

Kirov Saga:
Nine Days Falling, Kirov Series, Book V

As
Fedorov launches his daring mission to the past to rescue Orlov,
Volsky does not know where or how to find the team, or even if they have safely
made the dangerous transition to the 1940s….But other men know, from the dark
corners of Whitehall to the KGB. And other men also continue to stalk Orlov in
that distant era, led by Captain John Haselden and the men of 30 Commando. The
long journey west is fraught with danger for Fedorov’s team when they encounter
something bewildering and truly astounding, an incident that leads them deeper
into the mystery of Rod-25.

Meanwhile,
Kirov
has put to sea and now forms the heart of
a powerful battlegroup commanded by Captain Vladimir Karpov. He is soon
confronted by the swift deployment of the American Carrier Strike Group Five
out of Yokosuka Japan in a tense standoff at sea that threatens to explode into
violence at any moment. The fuse of conflict is lit across the globe, for the
dread war has finally begun when the Chinese make good on their threat to
secure their long wayward son—Taiwan. From the pulsing bitstream of the
Internet, the deep void of outer space, the oil soaked waters of the Persian
Gulf and Black Sea, to the riveting naval combat in the Pacific, the world
descends in nine grueling days, swept up in the maelstrom and chaos of war.

This is the story of that deadly war to end all wars, and the
desperate missions from the future and past to find the one man who can prevent
it from ever happening, Gennadi Orlov. Can the mystery of Rod-25 and Orlov be
solved before the ICBMs are finally launched?

Kirov Saga:
Fallen Angels ~ Kirov Series, Book VI

The war continues on both land and sea as China invades Taiwan and
North Korea joins to launch a devastating attack. Yet
Kirov
and the
heart of the Red Banner Pacific Fleet has vanished, blown into the past by the
massive wrath of the Demon Volcano. There Captain Karpov finds himself at the
dying edge of the last great war, yet his own inner demons now wage war with
his conscience as he contemplates another decisive intervention.

After secretly assisting the Soviet invasion of the Kuriles and
engaging a small US scouting force in the region, Karpov has drawn the
attention of Admiral Halsey’s powerful 3rd Fleet. Now Halsey sends one of the
toughest fighting Admirals of the war north to investigate, the hero of the
Battle off Samar, Ziggy Sprague, and fast and furious sea battles are the order
of the day.

Meanwhile tensions rise in the Black Sea as the Russian mission to
rescue Fedorov and Orlov has now been expanded to include a way to try and
deliver new control rods to
Kirov
from the same batch and lot as the
mysterious Rod-25. Will they work? Yet Admiral Volsky learns that the Russian
Black Sea Fleet has engaged well escorted units of a British oil conveyor,
Fairchild Inc., and the fires of war soon endanger his mission.

All efforts are now focused on a narrow stretch of coastline on
the Caspian Sea, where men of war from the future and past are locked in a
desperate struggle to decide the outcome of history itself. Naval combat, both
future and past, combine with action and intrigue as Volsky’s mission is
launched and the mystery of Rod-25 and Fedorov’s strange experience on the
Trans-Siberian Rail is finally revealed. Can they stop the nuclear holocaust of
the Third World War in 2021 or will it begin off the coast of Japan in 1945?

Kirov Saga:
Devil’s Garden
~
Kirov Series, Book VII

The stunning continuation to the
Kirov
saga extends the
action, both past and present, as the prelude to the Great War moves into its
final days. The last remnant of the Red Banner Pacific Fleet has fought its
duel with Halsey in the Pacific, resorting to nuclear weapons in the last
extreme—but what has happened to
Kirov
and
Orlan?

Now the many story threads involving Fairchild Inc. and the
desperate missions to find Orlov launched by both Haselden and Fedorov all
converge in the vortex of time and fate on the shores of the Caspian Sea.
Fedorov and Troyak lead an amphibious assault at Makhachkala, right into the
teeth of the German advance. Meanwhile, Admiral Volsky and Kamenski read the
chronology of events to peek at the outcome and discover the verdict of
history. Can it still be changed?

Turn the page with Admiral Volsky and learn the fate of Orlov,
Fedorov, Karpov and the world itself. Follow the strange and enigmatic figure
of Sir Roger Ames, Duke of Elvington as he reveals a plot, and a plan, older
than history itself on the windswept shores of Lindisfarne Castle.

The Meridian Series
(Time Travel / Alternate History)

Book I:
Meridian
–
A Novel In Time

ForeWord Magazine’s “Book of the Year”

2002 Silver Medal Winner for Science Fiction

The adventure begins on the eve of the greatest experiment ever attempted—Time
travel. As the project team meets for their final mission briefing, the last
member, arriving late, brings startling news. Catastrophe threatens and the
fate of the Western World hangs in the balance. But a visitor from another time
arrives bearing clues that will carry the hope of countless generations yet to
be born, and a desperate plea for help. The team is led to the Jordanian desert
during WWI and the exploits of the fabled Lawrence of Arabia.

Book II:
Nexus Point

The project team members slowly come to the realization that a
“Time War” is being waged by unseen adversaries in the future. The quest for an
ancient fossil leads to an amazing discovery hidden in the Jordanian desert. A
mysterious group of assassins plot to decide the future course of history, just
one battle in a devious campaign that will span the Meridians of time, both
future and past. Exciting Time travel adventure in the realm of the Crusades!

Book III:
Touchstone

When Nordhausen follows a hunch and launches a secret time jump
mission on his own, he uncovers an operation being run by unknown adversaries
from the future. The incident has dramatic repercussions for Kelly Ramer, his
place in the time line again threatened by paradox. Kelly’s fate is somehow
linked to an ancient Egyptian artifact, once famous the world over, and now a
forgotten slab of stone. The result is a harrowing mission to Egypt during the
time frame of Napoleon’s 1799 invasion.

Book IV:
Anvil of Fate