Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn Rae Bjornberg is raised in post-Revolution Russia by her father, a party-line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora. As an adult, she is drawn into gun-running and revolution in the streets of Washington, D.C. during the depths of the Great Depression. But when a revelation about her past brings her attention from the US authorities, Dawn returns to Russia, where she is groomed as a spy...
Set against the turbulence of the early 20th century, Polostan is a richly detailed, deeply entertaining historical epic - the first installment in Neal Stephenson's monumental new trilogy of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.
Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn Rae Bjornberg is raised in post-Revolution Russia by her father, a party-line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora. As an adult, she is drawn into gun-running and revolution in the streets of Washington, D.C. during the depths of the Great Depression. But when a revelation about her past brings her attention from the US authorities, Dawn returns to Russia, where she is groomed as a spy...
Set against the turbulence of the early 20th century, Polostan is a richly detailed, deeply entertaining historical epic - the first installment in Neal Stephenson's monumental new trilogy of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.