9 Days Falling, Volume I

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The Kirov Series as it is now conceived begins with the opening Kirov trilogy, which focuses on the long odyssey through time to the 1940s by the Russian battlecruiser Kirov. Book I covers action in the North Atlantic, Book II covers the Mediterranean, and book III the Pacific. The fourth book in the series, Men Of War, recounts what happened to the ship and principle crew members after their return to the year 2021. As such it is a kind of bridge novel that leads the story into the modern day presentation of the dreadful war in a second trilogy entitled 9 Days Falling.

The crew of Kirov learned of this war, and how it was to begin, during their journey, and they came to suspect that their own actions in the past gave birth to the catastrophic future they discovered. The strange disappearance and sudden return of the battlecruiser were critical factors in igniting the tinder dry political situation in 2021, where an energy starved world gears up for the first great global conflict of the new century. At the end of book III, Pacific Storm, Karpov realizes that, in some other cycle of these events, he may have been the man who triggered the war by firing on the US submarine Key West. The main characters have all seen the awful consequences of this war on one blackened shore after another, but they soon realize in Men Of War that the dreadful fall of the dominoes continues. Karpov’s dramatic rehabilitation and restraint has only bought the world a brief respite, and the conflict begins with another flashpoint over the Diaoyutai / Senkaku Islands.

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