'Inventive' THE TIMES From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and
Cryptonomicon the first installment in a monumental new trilogy-an expansive historical epic
of intrigue and international espionage presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age. Born in the
American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists Dawn Rae Bjornberg is raised in post-Revolution
Leningrad by her father a party-line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora. She spends her
early years in Russia but then grows up as a teenager in Montana before being drawn into
gun-running and revolution in the streets of Washington D.C. during the depths of the Great
Depression. When a surprising revelation about her past puts her in the crosshairs of U.S.
authorities Dawn returns to Russia where she is groomed as a spy by the organization that
later becomes the KGB... Set against the turbulent decades of the early 20th century Polostan
is an inventive richly detailed and deeply entertaining historical epic and the start of a
captivating new series from Neal Stephenson.
