Fallout of War: Ukraine: Year One

A U.S. Navy submarine officer. A diplomatic post in Kyiv. And five months to prepare for the largest European war since 1945.

In the tradition of Herman Wouk’s sweeping wartime sagas, Fallout of War is a military thriller set during the opening year of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, following Lieutenant Commander James Fairbanks from his September 2021 arrival as naval attaché at the American embassy in Kyiv through the first twelve months of full-scale war.

Fairbanks arrives with his wife Lucy, a State Department analyst, and finds a country bracing for something most of the world refuses to believe. Through encounters with Ukrainian special forces training in the haunting ruins of the Chernobyl exclusion zone, intelligence briefings that grow darker by the week, and an extraordinary personal audience with President Zelensky, Fairbanks becomes one of the few American officers who truly understands what is coming.

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