I am so, so excited to share with you the delightfully different cover for Amanda Cyr's Zhukov's Dogs. This book will be published by Curiosity Quills Press on October 27th, 2014.
This one is a new adult, science fiction, action adventure that sounds pretty epic in scope. I had a great streak with science fiction books earlier this year, so I'm looking forward to this one.
Check out the blurb:
Lieutenant Colonel Nik Zhukov is
just like any other desensitized seventeen-year-old living in the year 2076. At
least he likes to think he is when he isn’t busy eliminating threats to
national security, breaking up terrorist organizations, and trying not to get
blown up. It’s all in a normal day’s work for one of the military’s top dogs,
and he’s never disappointed. Never failed. Never lost sight of his dream of
making it to the elite force, even as each new job forces him to see just how morally
corrupt his leaders are.
On the verge of promotion, Nik is
dispatched to the underground city beneath the icy Seattle tundra, his final
mission handed down directly from The Council. It should have been a simple
in-and-out, but the underground is full of dark secrets and he soon finds
himself swept into battles, lying to his best friend back east, and growing a
bit too close to the rebels he was sent to spy on.
Nik realizes too late that he’s
broken the number one rule within his ranks; he’s allowed himself to feel
normal for the first time in his life. He might be able to turn the job around,
become the soldier he was once was, except for his growing attachment to the
rebel leader. A guy. Yet another first for Nik. It’s a mistake he pays for
dearly when he learns The Council’s true intentions for the city.
It’s never ‘just harmless fun’
when you’re a government dog, not when The Council holds the leash. Nik knows
there are some lines you can never come back from crossing, and he’s forced to
choose whose rules to play by. He races toward the invisible divide, aware
he’ll be called traitor by both his nation and by his friends. Aware that even
the right choice can be deadly to make.
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