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Odd things are happening on the border between Finland and the Soviet Union. The mighty Soviet army is recruiting teenagers for a secret new program. One of those teens is Slava, whose memory has been completely erased. Over the course of his adventures, Slava and his friend Andrei will encounter sinister Soviet agents, ruthless Soviet officers, and Benji, the kidnapped young son of the American ambassador to Sweden.

How these tangled stories meet and mesh makes for an edge-of-your-seat thriller by M. Kenan, whose Khazar series (The Betrayal, the Outcast, the Dark Tower and The Final Battle) has become a modern classic.