This book is an adventure/history tale about five characters bound up in the turbulent times following World War and during the Russian Civil War. Emil Langemark is a disenfranchised German soldier who stayed behind as the Kaiser's army withdrew from Russian territory in 1918 preferring to throw his lot in with the counterrevolutionary army of General Nikolair Iudenich rather than face unemployment and famine in the new Germany. Evan Buk is a former Russian prisoner of war who was supposed to infiltrate Iudenich's army and spread Communist dissention in the ranks; however, cooperating with the new commander was more rational and safer. Raisa, no family name in the spirit of the Revolution, was a member of the Women's Battalion of Death and a women's rights activist in the Bolshevik cause until her patron, Fanny Kaplan, attempted to shoot Vladimir Lenin, the Bolshevik leader, and she had to run for her life. Albert Chamberlain, us a British army sergeant who volunteered to teach Iud
