*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 anarch...

*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.