The Writing Shop is pleased to announced that author John Schettler has completed a new novel in the popular military fiction genre.
Kirov – Military Fiction (Naval) – Available Mar 15, 2012
The battlecruiser Kirov, is the most power surface combatant that ever put to sea. Built from the bones of all four prior Kirov Class guided missile cruisers, 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.
The novel is an intensely focused naval saga, where the crew of the lost Russian battlecruiser must struggle to understand what has happened to them, and then make a choice that could be decisive in the outcome of the war—who’s side are they on? It is late July of 1941, and Germany has only recently invaded Russia, driving on Smolensk and Leningrad. The Nazis are clearly their enemy today, but it is the British and Americans who are their enemy tomorrow. After decades of suspicion and enmity, the Russia of 2021 is again at a major crisis point with Western powers. Yet, at this crucial time, Kirov finds herself just days and miles away from a secret summit at sea between Churchill and Roosevelt. On August 9, 1941, the two great leaders meet to plan cooperation in the war and lay down the Atlantic Charter, which decides the framework of post war power in the world and becomes the basis for the new United Nations and NATO.
With the hindsight of history as their guide, Kirov races south toward the secret meeting place at Argentia Bay in Newfoundland. Even as she cruises for the Denmark strait, both Roosevelt and Churchill prepare to embark for the sea journey as well. The Russian battlecruiser has an opportunity to decisively affect the outcome of the war, and all future history, but the Royal Navy soon discovers what they believe to be a fearsome new German raider in the Norwegian Sea, and they join with America’s Atlantic Fleet to bar the way and hunt down the most formidable surface action ship in the world.
The novel is an exciting, tense and highly focused naval saga that makes the fabled hunt for the Bismarck look like a training exercise!
Kirov is by John Schettler, the award winning author of the Meridian time travel series, is in final review and being readied for a release in mid March, 2012, by the Writing Shop Press. The book will be released on Amazon and Smashwords in popular eBook formats and sell for $4.99. A trade Paperback version will also be available.
The battlecruiser Kirov, is the most power surface combatant that ever put to sea. Built from the bones of all four prior Kirov Class guided missile cruisers, 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.
The novel is an intensely focused naval saga, where the crew of the lost Russian battlecruiser must struggle to understand what has happened to them, and then make a choice that could be decisive in the outcome of the war—who’s side are they on? It is late July of 1941, and Germany has only recently invaded Russia, driving on Smolensk and Leningrad. The Nazis are clearly their enemy today, but it is the British and Americans who are their enemy tomorrow. After decades of suspicion and enmity, the Russia of 2021 is again at a major crisis point with Western powers. Yet, at this crucial time, Kirov finds herself just days and miles away from a secret summit at sea between Churchill and Roosevelt. On August 9, 1941, the two great leaders meet to plan cooperation in the war and lay down the Atlantic Charter, which decides the framework of post war power in the world and becomes the basis for the new United Nations and NATO.
With the hindsight of history as their guide, Kirov races south toward the secret meeting place at Argentia Bay in Newfoundland. Even as she cruises for the Denmark strait, both Roosevelt and Churchill prepare to embark for the sea journey as well. The Russian battlecruiser has an opportunity to decisively affect the outcome of the war, and all future history, but the Royal Navy soon discovers what they believe to be a fearsome new German raider in the Norwegian Sea, and they join with America’s Atlantic Fleet to bar the way and hunt down the most formidable surface action ship in the world.
The novel is an exciting, tense and highly focused naval saga that makes the fabled hunt for the Bismarck look like a training exercise!
Kirov is by John Schettler, the award winning author of the Meridian time travel series, is in final review and being readied for a release in mid March, 2012, by the Writing Shop Press. The book will be released on Amazon and Smashwords in popular eBook formats and sell for $4.99. A trade Paperback version will also be available.
ISBN 978-0-9849465-1-8 - 390 Pages, about 140,000 words.
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