Colonel Dmitry Zhankovskii of Red Army Military Intelligence will experience the hell of World War II in the surreal world of Soviet Russia. Not only does he fight the German invaders at home and abroad, he must also defend himself against the agents of the rival Soviet intelligence agency, the NKVD. His war is fought in an environment of total engagement. In Red Tears, the first of a series of novels, we accompany Zhankovskii across the early days of Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, from the all encompassing surprise of the Nazi attack which results in the almost complete...