The Coming of Winter

“You have some pieces of the puzzle, we have others. But we have little time...”


On a cold October day in 1947, the first Secretary of Defense James Forrestal is astounded to see his Russian counterpart, Nikolai Bulganin, materialize in his office. The Soviet claims that his plea for assistance is critical to the survival of both of the world’s superpowers, and that a new force is rising, greater than anyone could have imagined.


For something from Hitler’s eugenics programs has endured. Something that should have been forgotten has fallen into the wrong hands and now the skies will be host to something dark and unfathomable if left unchecked.


Struggling to believe the evidence before him, Forrestal must risk the respect of his peers and a forty year career if he is to convince an incredulous President.