John Calvin Batchelor

"John Calvin Batchelor's Peter Nevsky and the True Story of the Russian Moon Landing is a triumphant return to the epic grandeur of his earlier novels The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica and American Falls. Eight years in the making and based on long-rumored accounts of a Soviet manned mission to the moon launched prior to Apollo II, it takes on nothing less than the titanic contest of the Cold War, the never-to-be-repeated heroics of...

Beginning on election eve in 1864, agents of rival Secret Services, John Oliphant and Amaziah Butter, clash as they struggle to deceive as they are deceived.