Polostan: Volume One of Bomb Light—A Riveting Historical Epic of International Espionage, Intrigue, and the Dawn of the Atomic Age, by the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author

Polostan is the first installment in Neal Stephenson's Bomb Light series, a historical epic set in the early twentieth century. The novel follows Dawn Rae Bjornberg, born in the American West to a family of cowboy anarchists. After the Russian Revolution, she is raised in Leningrad by her Russian father, a party line Leninist, who renames her Aurora. She spends her early years in Russia before growing up as a teenager in Montana. During the Great Depression, she becomes involved in gunrunning and revolution in Washington, D.C. When a revelation about her past brings her to the attention of U.S. authorities, she returns to Russia, where she is trained as a spy by the organization that becomes the KGB. The novel is set against the turbulent decades of the early twentieth century and presents a richly detailed historical narrative.