The Battle of Bear Island: A Northern Fury Novel

The Arctic wind swept down on them from Mount Misery, it pierced every fiber of clothing andnerve they possessed. "They're here," said Grimes "Good, let's warm this place up," responded Foster as he crawled into position. There, emerging from the haze of blowing snow were a group of Soviet soldiers. Evenly spacedin a long file, picking their way through the drifts and white crusted rocks. Looking. Searchingfor something or someone, whatever mysterious ghost had been lurking out of their reach. Foster knew that the Russians had just found what they were looking for, but he planned to makethat a costly discovery.The Battle of Bear Island is set in the Northern Fury world where a hardline government deposedMikhail Gorbachev and reasserted Moscow's control of rebellious Soviet Republics. Three yearslater, in February 1994, the USSR lashes out against the economic strangulation imposed by thewest and initiates a war to destabilise Europe and NATO.Bear Island is a tiny spec of land between the North Cape of Norway and the SvalbardArchipelago. An island so remote and desolate, few even knew of its existence, until both theSoviets and NATO want to use it as a base to monitor each other.

Pagina's: 244, Paperback, Ursus Rising Books