Description
Nikolai Fyodorov, a young Russian assassin on a mission to punish a turncoat in Alaska's largest city, is instead humiliated by a mysterious gunman. Nikolai is given on chance to redeem himself with a new assignment that will shape the U.S. Senate--and to do it he must go to the windy, hot plains of Kansas.
What he finds is a state beset by industrial farming, extreme right-wing politics, and kidnappers who prey on teenage girls. Nikolai confronts the betrayal that led him into the assassin's trade and the price he must pay for his fmaily's past--and he must escape the temptation of love that draws him toward his own death.
Leon Unruh grew up in west-central Kansas in a town along the Arkansas River, mowing lawns and digging graves before becoming a newspaperman and eventually the editor at the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He now lives in Tucson, Arizona.
