Maxim Orlov

In the brutal winter of 1942, Commander Sineus is the perfect Soviet officer, his loyalty to the state absolute. Ordered to hunt a defector, he pursues his target into the frozen marshes, only to learn the man’s stolen secrets prove Sineus’s own side…

In war-torn Petrograd where reality itself is fraying, nobleman-inventor Sineus walls himself away, erasing the messy past to impose order. But when a targeted memory-bomb infects his sister with a fatal plague, he must abandon his sterile workshop a…