Overview
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General Joseph Kalynin is a man born and raised in the Soviet Union. As a career soldier and dedicated communist, he is disheartened by the corruption and decay he sees consuming his beloved Motherland. Even as General Kalynin puts his daring plans into motion, Hektor Lavski, a young Military Intelligence (GRU) captain, begins to piece together the truth, unaware there is a deeper and even more dangerous conspiracy in motion. After Kalynin’s men assault a Russian Strategic Rocket Forces base to secure several nuclear weapons, the General leads the hand-picked men of the Second Guards Airborne Division on a dangerous trek out of their homeland toward an uncertain future. Half a world away, Simon Weldy, a new analyst at the CIA, is tasked with monitoring and deciphering the unusual events taking place in Russia, while Allied forces react to the sudden flurry of Russian military activity. Around the world, Russian forces sympathetic to Kalynin’s cause confront U.S. and NATO units, threatening to ignite a fresh conflict between the old Cold War antagonists. Amid the chaos, the General’s wife, Raisa Kalynin, leads the families of the men of the Second Guards Airborne division on an equally perilous exodus from Russia, hoping to join her husband in their new the Soviet Socialist Republic of Africa. As international tensions escalate, Russia’s President finds himself embattled by nationwide, pro-communist demonstrations. Pressured from all sides, he acquiesces to the American ‘requests’ for swift and sure military action, and gives his nod for a U.S.-led attack to bring an end to the crisis before his own government is toppled. On the ground in Africa, U.S. Navy SEALs fight to secure Kalynin's nuclear weapons, while Marines launch a joint assault with soldiers of the vaunted 82nd Airborne Division on the occupied African territory. Through it all, an ex-KGB agent guides and watches these events from the shadows, certain that whether General Kalynin succeeds or fails, his own ambitions will be served. "The Kalynin August, 1996," is a fast-paced thriller in the style of early Tom Clancy or Dale Brown, perfect for any fan of the military/historical fiction genre!