Queen Of The Uzbeks

2024. The USSR reigns supreme and the USA is in decline. Shahzoda Aleksandrovna Eshonto’rayeva, half-Russian, half-Uzbek, and daughter of a prominent member of the Politburo, has been living the life she always dreamed of, shopping in Louis Vuitton, treading red carpets in Cannes, and partying the nights away in Saint Tropez and Nice. But then everything changes.

Somehow, and she isn’t quite sure how, she finds herself signed up to the KGB and promoted to the rank of Major. And as if that isn’t bad enough, she now finds herself plucked from her cosy desk, where she’s been soullessly monitoring mind-numbingly tedious pseudo-intellectual telephone conversations, and despatched to London to track down a traitor who is in possession of something that threatens not just her father, but her entire family and their comfortable and privileged life.

Shahzoda somehow triumphs, only to find out that a bigger game is in play, one that eventually leads her to the greatest danger she’s ever faced. And all played out on an island in the frozen wastes of the Bering Strait, only 2.4 miles away from the great enemy, the USA.

‘I trust your father, so I’m going to trust you, Major.’ These were President Garwe's last words to me. Luckily, he ended the call at that point, because I had no idea what to say to that. Only a lunatic would trust my father. Maybe that was the point? Or, maybe, it was simply a threat.

‘What have you done? You've started World War Three!’

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Coming soon, the second book in the Queen Of The Uzbeks series.

Major Shahzoda Aleksandrovna Eshonto'rayeva, fresh from her successes in safeguarding both the USSR and her father, finds herself despatched to the Baikonur Cosmodrome to investigate a murder, just a week before the first manned mission to Mars is due to blast-off.

Due soon, to be available from Amazon