Kirov Saga: Hinge Of Fate: Altered States Volume III (Kirov Series) (44 page)

Kirov Saga: Armageddon ~
Book VIII

The lines of fate have brought the most powerful ship in the world
to a decisive place in 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.

Shocked by Karpov’s betrayal, Anton Fedorov plans a mission to
stop the Captain before he can do irreversible damage to the cracked mirror of
time. Now Admiral Volsky must do everything possible to launch this final
mission aboard the nuclear attack submarine
Kazan
. The journey to the
Sea of Japan becomes a perilous one when the Americans and Japanese begin to
hunt
Kazan
in the dangerous waters of 2021.

Join Anton Fedorov, Admiral Volsky, Chief Dobrynin, 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.

Kirov Saga:
Altered States

Kirov
and
Kazan
move forward yet find themselves stuck in the
midst of WWII once again, only the world is not the same! The consequences of
all their interventions in history have now calcified to a new reality. The
political borders of nations have been re-drawn, Colonial powers vie for
control of the undeveloped world, and Russia itself is a divided nation. Discovering
they still possess a decisive edge in weapons technology they must now decide
which side to take to end a long and terrible war that threatens millions more
lives.

Altered States ~
Volume II: Darkest Hour

The first rounds have fallen, heavy shells smashing against the
armored conning tower of HMS
Hood
, stunning the ship and its stolid
Admiral Holland. Yet
Hood
fights on, her guns raging in reprisal as the
pride of two navies meet in the largest naval engagement since Jutland. Even as
Admiral Tovey reaches the action, the shadow of Hoffmann’s battlegroup looms
over his shoulder and the odds stack ever higher against the embattled ships of
Home Fleet. Off to the north the
Stukas
rush to re-arm aboard carrier
Graf
Zeppelin
, while far to the south another ship hastens north to the scene,
from a time and place incomprehensible to the men now locked in a desperate
struggle raging on a blood red sea that may decide the fate of England in 1940.
Can they engage without shattering the fragile mirror of history yet again?

Learn the outcome and follow
Kirov
north as it heads to
home waters, determined to meet the man that may have changed the course of all
history, Sergei Kirov. Meanwhile the action moves to the Med where the young
Christopher Wells is dispatched to Force H. The British must first prevent the
powerful French fleet from falling into enemy hands. The fighting has only just
begun as
Altered States
continues the retelling of the naval war in an
exciting second volume.

The
Altered States
segment of the
Kirov Series
continues in the book you now hold:
Darkest Hour,
to be followed by
Volume III:
Hinge of Fate.
Further titles
are planned as the days
slowly tick off toward “Paradox Day” the fateful day and hour when
Kirov
was to have first arrived in the Norwegian Sea on July 28, 1941.

Altered States:
Volume III ~ Hinge of Fate

As
Alan Turing pursues the baffling discovery of the strange cache of information
code named
Geronimo
, Admiral Volsky sails to meet with the British on
the Faeroes, bearing an offer of formal alliance between Soviet Russia and
Great Britain. There Tovey learns the startling truth behind the mysterious
ship that has haunted him all his life.

Sergeant
Troyak’s mission aboard airship
Narva
faces danger and mystery on the
Stony Tunguska, even while elements of two other airship fleets converge on the
inn at Ilanskiy—the hinge of fate.

Meanwhile,
Hitler hopes to secure another vital ally so that he can breathe life into
Admiral Raeder’s long advocated Mediterranean strategy. It will begin with
Operation
Felix
the assault on Gibraltar. As Britain steels itself for possible
invasion, the Royal Navy must now rally  to the defense of the embattled garrison
at Gibraltar, England’s Rock in the Med, another hinge of fate that could turn
the entire course of the war should it fall. Opposing them are the three elite
regiments of the German Army, and a resurgent Kriegsmarine led by a fearsome new
gladiator, the
Hindenburg
.

Like
Alternate History / Time Travel by John Schettler?
Don’t miss his five volume
Meridian Series!

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. There they struggle to find the needle in the haystack of causality
that can prevent the disaster from ever happening.

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

The cryptic ending of Touchstone dovetails perfectly into
this
next volume as Paul insists that Kelly has survived, and is determined to
bring him safely home. Only now is the true meaning of the stela unearthed at
Rosetta made apparent—a grand scheme to work a catastrophic transformation of
the Meridians, so dramatic and profound in its effect that the disaster at
Palma was only a precursor. The history leads them to the famous Battle of
Tours where Charles Martel strove to stem the tide of the Moorish invaders and
save the west from annihilation. Yet more was at stake on the Anvil of Fate
than the project team first realized, and they now pursue the mystery of two
strange murders that will decide the fate of Western Civilization itself!

Book V:
Golem 7

Nordhausen is back with new research and his hand on the neck of
the new terrorist behind the much feared “Palma Event.” Now the project team
struggles to discover how and where the Assassins have intervened to restore
the chaos of Palma, and their search leads them on one of the greatest naval
sagas of modern history—the hunt for the battleship
Bismarck
. For some
unaccountable reason the fearsome German battleship was not sunk on its maiden
voyage, and now the project team struggles to put the ship back in its watery
grave. Meet Admiral John Tovey and Chief of Staff “Daddy” Brind as the Royal
Navy begins to receive mysterious intelligence from an agent known only as
“Lonesome Dove.” Exciting naval action and top notch research characterize this
fast paced alternate history of the sinking of the
Bismarck
.

Golem 7 Introduces Admiral John Tovey as a primary historical
character, and he figures prominently in the long Kirov Saga novels that
followed this book.

Historical Fiction

Taklamakan ~
The Land Of No Return

It was one of those moments on the cusp of time, when Tando Ghazi
Khan, a simple trader of tea and spice, leads a caravan to the edge of the
great desert, and becomes embroiled in the struggle that will decide the fate
of an empire and shake all under heaven and earth. A novel of the Silk Road,
the empire of Tibet clashes with T’ang China on the desolate roads that fringe
the Taklamakan desert, and one man holds the key to victory in a curious map
that guards an ancient secret hidden for centuries.

Khan Tengri
~
Volume II of Taklamakan

Learn the fate of Tando, Drekk, and the others in this revised and
extended version of Part II of Taklamakan, with a 30,000 word, 7 chapter addition.
Tando and his able scouts lead the Tibetan army west to Khotan, but they are
soon confronted by a powerful T’ang army, and threatened by treachery and
dissention within their own ranks. Their paths join at a mysterious shrine
hidden in the heart of the most formidable desert on earth where each one finds
more than they imagined, an event that changes their lives forever.

The Dharman Series: Science Fiction

Wild Zone ~
Classic Science Fiction – Volume I

A shadow has fallen over earth’s latest and most promising colony
prospect in the Dharma system. When a convulsive solar flux event disables
communications with the Safe Zone, special agent Timothy Scott Ryan is rushed
to the system on a navy frigate to investigate. He soon becomes embroiled in a
mystery that threatens the course of evolution itself as a virulent new
organism has targeted mankind as a new host. Aided by three robotic aids left
in the colony facilities, Ryan struggles to solve the mystery of Dharma VI, and
the source of the strange mutation in the life forms of the planet. Book I in a
trilogy of riveting classic sci-fi novels.

Mother Heart
~ Sequel to Wild Zone – Volume II

Ensign Lydia Gates is the most important human being alive, for
her blood holds the key to synthesizing a vaccine against the awful mutations
spawned by the Colony Virus. Ryan and Caruso return to the Wild Zone to find
her, discovering more than they bargained for when microbiologist Dr. Elena
Chandros is found alive, revealing a mystery deeper than time itself at the heart
of the planet, an ancient entity she has come to call “Mother Heart.”

Dream Reaper ~
A Mythic Mystery/Horror Novel

There was something under the ice at Steamboat Slough, something
lost, buried in the frozen wreckage where the children feared to play. For
Daniel Byrne, returning to the old mission site near the Yukon where he taught
school a decade past, the wreck of an old steamboat becomes more than a tale
told by the village elders. In a mystery weaving the shifting imagery of a
dream with modern psychology and ancient myth, Daniel struggles to solve the
riddle of the old wreck and free himself from the haunting embrace of a
nightmare older than history itself. It has been reported through every
culture, in every era of human history, a malevolent entity that comes in the
night…and now it has come for him!

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