Masello dips into some known history about the grand duchess, youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. It involves Rasputin and Anastasia, the young Romanov some people thought might have survived the Russian revolution.
Masello also has a very interesting tale to tell about that fancy cross, and how it got to the little Alaskan island. Slater goes to Alaska, where things go very, very bad. There is a chance that the deadly virus was, in effect, flash frozen in the bodies, and is still viable. They were buried in holes that had been made by blasting the permafrost with TNT. The problem is, everybody in the graveyard died from the Spanish flu. He's in big trouble, career-wise, and pushes his career deeper into the latrine when he punches out his commanding officer for making a mean joke when the person Slater had tried to save dies.Īt his court martial, as he is contemplating spending the next few years in a military prison, he gets an offer to avoid jail if he will go to Alaska and investigate the thawing graveyard. Meanwhile, in a much warmer corner of the world, an Army epidemiologist, Frank Slater, in a war zone, tries to save the life of a local by calling in a helicopter medivac, in violation of standing orders. He saves the pretty cross he found, though, which is encrusted with precious gems.
He spots something shiny in the coffin, then manages to accidentally destroy his boat and most of his crew. In Masello's highly entertaining thriller, a graveyard on a desolate Alaskan island starts thawing out, and a coffin tumbles into the sea, where it is found by a fishing-boat captain who is not bright and not honest.
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