Kirov III: Pacific Storm

^{Admiral Isokoru Yamamoto leads the Imperial Japanese Navy as it confronts the USN and a strange phantom ship that has unhinged operational planning from Darwin to the Coral Sea.}

^{Battleship Yamato, involved in the final hunt for the phantom ship that had bedeviled Yamamoto’s navy.}

^{Her 18.1 inch guns had 26 inch armor and could range out to 45 kilometers! Her side armor was 16 inches thick, with 200mm deck armor.}

^{She is opposed by the most powerful battlecruiser ever conceived in the modern era, a clash of titans that spans three full chapters in the novel.}

^{Heavy Cruiser Tone.}

^{Kirov’s new AR-710 Gatling gun system in stealth turret.}

^{The older Kashtan integrated Gun/Missile system.}

Maps

WARNING: Maps will reveal significant plot elements of the story. Spoilers dead ahead! They are included here as references for those wishing to follow the saga graphically as they read. But if you don’t want to know what’s coming up ahead, steer clear of these waters.

^{The Main Japanese plan for the drive south. Then Kirov appears and begins to unhinge the entire operation.}

The Kirov Saga Continues…

Men of War — By John Schettler

It is late 1942 and the war rages on, but buried deep in the hidden rooms of Bletchley Park are files and photographs of a strange ship that bedeviled the world’s navies for two years, and then vanished. The men in Whitehall and Bletchley Park have not forgotten what they learned about this ship, which left behind more than nightmare visions and blackened ship hulls. There was a man, Gennadi Orlov, leaping to his freedom in a fit of jubilant violence—with a Glock pistol that would not be designed or produced for nearly 60 years… and one thing more…

Now the true nature of the threat posed by the ship they had come to call Geronimo is finally revealed to the dogged analysts at Hut 4, and if one ship appeared to challenge the power of the British Empire, when might the next one come? A ‘Great War’ is coming, this they now know, a war so devastating and final that they must do everything in their power to prevent it. Men have died that should have lived, and others walk the earth who should have perished. What might they and their successive generations write upon the tattered pages of history shorn by Kirov’s private war on war itself? The realization is so startling, and so frightening, that a secret organization is established at Bletchley Park known simply as “The Watch.”

Join the brilliant genius Alan Turing and Admiral John Tovey as they now lead the hunt for Kirov into darkened corners of history in an exciting intrigue of spymasters and sinister plots to control the course of all future history. In so doing they find that one other man has now become aware of their operations, in a future they can but dimly perceive—Anton Fedorov, who has become obsessed with the mystery of Kirov’s disappearance and the secret of “Rod-25.” Then something very strange begins happening to crew members who served aboard Kirov during that fateful voyage, and it changes everything.

The Kirov saga continues as Anton Fedorov joins with Admiral Leonid Volsky, and Captain Vladimir Karpov in a desperate effort to solve the mystery and heal the breach in time that was torn by their own bloodied hands in the heat of naval combat.

Men of War, by John Schettler

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~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

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The Meridian Series

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.

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