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Re-entry
On a clear October morning, a Peterhead trawler watches a scorched capsule fall out of the sky under a single shredded parachute. Painted on its a hammer and sickle, and the words ZARYA-7.
Inside are three cosmonauts in 1970s pressure suits. They say they launched from Baikonur on 9 July 1975. They say they have been gone for seven days. And the medical tests say they are telling the truth.
Ellie Marsh, a Russian-speaking MoD linguist sidelined after one bad translation, is driven through the night to a remote Highland facility to be their voice. Colonel Arkady Rudenko demands the Soviet embassy. Flight engineer Valentina Sorokina asks for newspapers. And the mission doctor, Pavel Mishin, keeps asking whether the capsule has been contained.
Moscow says the crew never existed. Washington sends a Space Force major with a file from 1975 she isn't allowed to show anyone. And the more Ellie listens, the less their story fits. Their Moon landings happened in a different order. Their heroes died at different times. Their families have never lived at the addresses they remember.
These cosmonauts aren't from our past. They are from someone else's. And they did not come back alone.
Now something is descending from high orbit toward the North Sea, and every government wants to own what happens when it arrives. Ellie has only days to decide who she is translating for, and what three people with no country left are owed.
Reentry is a gripping alternate-history thriller about loyalty, loss and the lives we might have lived, for readers who love Cold War intrigue with a sci-fi twist.
Inside are three cosmonauts in 1970s pressure suits. They say they launched from Baikonur on 9 July 1975. They say they have been gone for seven days. And the medical tests say they are telling the truth.
Ellie Marsh, a Russian-speaking MoD linguist sidelined after one bad translation, is driven through the night to a remote Highland facility to be their voice. Colonel Arkady Rudenko demands the Soviet embassy. Flight engineer Valentina Sorokina asks for newspapers. And the mission doctor, Pavel Mishin, keeps asking whether the capsule has been contained.
Moscow says the crew never existed. Washington sends a Space Force major with a file from 1975 she isn't allowed to show anyone. And the more Ellie listens, the less their story fits. Their Moon landings happened in a different order. Their heroes died at different times. Their families have never lived at the addresses they remember.
These cosmonauts aren't from our past. They are from someone else's. And they did not come back alone.
Now something is descending from high orbit toward the North Sea, and every government wants to own what happens when it arrives. Ellie has only days to decide who she is translating for, and what three people with no country left are owed.
Reentry is a gripping alternate-history thriller about loyalty, loss and the lives we might have lived, for readers who love Cold War intrigue with a sci-fi twist.
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Published October 18, 2026
About the author
Lee Emerick
71 books51 followersAfter a fifteen‑year break from publishing — caused by life, chaos, and at least one incident involving a printer that shall never be spoken of again — Lee Emerick has returned with the energy of someone who has been storing stories like a dragon stores treasure.
He kept writing the whole time. He just didn’t release any of it. Which means he now has fifteen years’ worth of pent‑up storytelling pressure, and the valve has officially snapped.
He is now publishing everything he’s written, one book at a time, before the madness consumes him entirely. Readers are invited to witness this process from a safe distance.
Contact
info@leeemerick.co.uk
*The above may not be entirely factual
He kept writing the whole time. He just didn’t release any of it. Which means he now has fifteen years’ worth of pent‑up storytelling pressure, and the valve has officially snapped.
He is now publishing everything he’s written, one book at a time, before the madness consumes him entirely. Readers are invited to witness this process from a safe distance.
Contact
info@leeemerick.co.uk
*The above may not be entirely factual
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