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Atomic Coffin
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Expected 25 Jun 26December 1984. SIS field asset Heidi Sperling exfiltrates from East Berlin with the sole copy of a critical intelligence leak: a naval log containing a message received from a previously unidentified Soviet submarine.
Incredulously – impossibly – the vessel, known only as TK-15, has been sitting motionless and undetected in the waters between Scotland and Iceland for three whole years. Its latest message now reads: ACTIVE.
Picked up by the Royal Navy’s submarine HMS Viking, Heidi is unwittingly thrust into a black operation: find TK-15 and neutralise it at any cost. But as her only ally falls sick, she realises this modified vessel is far more than a Soviet experiment to gain an upper hand in the nuclear arms race. Here, in the crushing depths of the North Atlantic, something darker has been awoken, something that cannot be chained by any superpower.
As Heidi’s own reality twists around her, an unknowable force cripples HMS Viking’s defences and drives its crew to madness. Trapped in the deep, Heidi has no choice but to find a way to save the remaining crew and stop TK-15 for good, before it steals what’s left of her mind.
Incredulously – impossibly – the vessel, known only as TK-15, has been sitting motionless and undetected in the waters between Scotland and Iceland for three whole years. Its latest message now reads: ACTIVE.
Picked up by the Royal Navy’s submarine HMS Viking, Heidi is unwittingly thrust into a black operation: find TK-15 and neutralise it at any cost. But as her only ally falls sick, she realises this modified vessel is far more than a Soviet experiment to gain an upper hand in the nuclear arms race. Here, in the crushing depths of the North Atlantic, something darker has been awoken, something that cannot be chained by any superpower.
As Heidi’s own reality twists around her, an unknowable force cripples HMS Viking’s defences and drives its crew to madness. Trapped in the deep, Heidi has no choice but to find a way to save the remaining crew and stop TK-15 for good, before it steals what’s left of her mind.
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Benedict Anning
3 books2 followersBenedict Anning is a Surrey-born author and short fiction writer living just outside of Edinburgh with his wonderful cat, Penny.
After a stint in creative studies at sixth form, independent exams, and later Ancient History at university, Ben spent three years as a bookseller before moving to the third sector where he now works for a local animal shelter.
An artist at heart and fan of all things eerie, he has a special love for twisty horror fiction where the setting is a principal character and things just aren't quite right.
Ben is represented by John Baker at Bell Lomax Moreton
After a stint in creative studies at sixth form, independent exams, and later Ancient History at university, Ben spent three years as a bookseller before moving to the third sector where he now works for a local animal shelter.
An artist at heart and fan of all things eerie, he has a special love for twisty horror fiction where the setting is a principal character and things just aren't quite right.
Ben is represented by John Baker at Bell Lomax Moreton
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