Red sky at noon

Description

Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden joins a penal battalion made up of Cossacks and convicts to fight the Nazis. He enrolls in the Russian cavalry, and on a hot summer day in July 1942, he and his band of brothers are sent on a suicide mission behind enemy lines-- and there may be a traitor among them. The only thing Benya can truly trust is his horse, Silver Socks, and that he will find no mercy in onslaught of Hitler's troops as they push East.

Description

"The black earth was already baking and the sun was just rising when they mounted their horses and rode across the grasslands towards the horizon on fire ... ". Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden joins a penal battalion made up of Cossacks and convicts to fight the Nazis. He enrols in the Russian cavalry, and on a hot summer day in July 1942, he and his band of brothers are sent on a desperate mission behind enemy lines. Switching between Benya's war in the grasslands of Southern Russia, and Stalin's plans in the Kremlin, between Benya's intense affair with an Italian nurse and a romance between Stalin's daughter and a journalist also on the Eastern Front, this is a sweeping story of passion, bravery and human survival where personal betrayal is a constant companion, and death just a hearbeat away.

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• Red sky at noon2017-01-01
• Red sky at noon2018-01-01
• Red Sky at NoonPenguin Random House2018-01-01
• Red Sky at NoonPegasus Books2018-01-01
• Red Sky at NoonPegasus Books2018-01-01
• Red Sky at NoonAudio CDBlackstone Audio, Inc.2018-01-02