Publisher's Synopsis
"A saga that spans the most politically relevant generations of the 20th Century. It will haunt you." Ray Hoy of The Fiction Works"An adventure that will keep you up at nights. Be forewarned, this is graphic. It is a factionalised tale of woe that begs the question - which was the more evil of two of the most depraved ideologies that have befallen us. Thoroughly recommended." FRK An Auschwitz survivor is sentenced to a Siberian Gulag for crimes against the state after suffering abuse at the hands of a passing KGB unit. She writes of the injustices of fascism and the savage extremes of Stalinist socialism in a series of mysterious letters that surface in Cold War Berlin.An IRA assassin determines to rescue her no matter the cost to him or those around him. He enlists a sworn enemy, the British Army soldier recently captured by a Republican cell in Armagh. Despite the political divide that separates them, the two men find themselves blood bound to voyage to Vorkuta in Siberia on a quest that defies common sense. As they set out on their suicidal mission, these Auschwitz linked combatants are joined by an AWOL Mossad agent, a man with his own personal agenda. While the trio equip themselves for their trek East to overturn the outrageous injustice committed by Stalinists, they encounter other Gulag inmate relatives who have similar tales of Auschwitz survivors enslaved by Communism. Between the resilient group and a death worth dying for stands the demonic forces of the old-boy SS network Odessa and the harsh elements of the Arctic Circle. Dark secrets within a fresh series of Gulag letters confound them while all the while they ask themselves, which was the more evil ideology, National Socialism or Stalinist Communism? Before a single member of the expedition catches sight of the Siberian Aurora Lights, they encounter a psychotic KGB officer who has questions to ask and also to answer to. A man whose depravity eclipses the very worst that the Gestapo and SS demonstrated.
