It is April 1964 in a World in which the ‘swinging sixties’ never happened.
War is chaos; and chaos is war. The post-October War world is at a bloody crossroads; betrayals and confusion distract the West from the imminence of the disasters about to befall newly remade, desperately fragile alliances as long kept secrets surface at exactly the wort possible moment.
Ulysses is the English form of Ulixes, which in turn is the Latin form of the Greek Odysseus, hero Homer’s ‘Iliad’ that tells the story of the great Trojan Wars, and the ‘Odyssey’ which recounts the fable of his long journey home from those wars.
Now, as the impenetrable fog of war spreads across the Mediterranean, even while Malta burns and the survivors of the savage naval battle off its coast fight for their lives in the wreckage-strewn iron grey waters, the brittle rapprochement between the two trans-Atlantic pre-war nuclear superpowers comes under intolerable pressure both from within and without.
Agonisingly, the newly patched-together Anglo-American alliance has failed its first big test and while the blame game rages, events elsewhere are moving at terrifying speed.
Like a great, wounded beast, the Soviet Union is about to lash out at its tormentor.
Like the Greeks of classical antiquity after ten years besieging Troy, the war weary, disillusioned peoples of what remains of the pre-October War free world are badly in need of heroes.
And like the Greeks of yore, they too await the return of their brave Odysseus to give them hope for a better future.
PLEASE BE WARNED – CLIFFHANGER ENDING!
Author’s note to readers: since the publication of ‘Operation Anadyr’ in October 2014, the Timeline 10/27/62 series has branched into and explored a number of additional narrative arcs and themes, and in several standalone stories.
For my readers who prefer to read the Timeline 10/27/62 books in the chronological order of the overall narrative arc TALES OF BRAVE ULYSSES = 12.
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