The Huge Black Ship

There are many novels and films about the post-nuclear world. When everything has already happened and the pitiful remnants of humanity greedily divide among themselves the suddenly precious everyday things from the prewar world, bands of ragged fighters with automatic weapons roam the world, and ordinary people quickly turn into dangerous animals…

What you have before you is something else! This book is precisely about the most thermonuclear war. Here the process of planning, unleashing, and conducting it is shown. The entire chain—from the soldier to the generalissimo. Two terrible monster empires share so large, yet suddenly become a small planet. They will fight to the last—no one will retreat, because they have stockpiled arsenals and hope to grind the opponent into radioactive dust.

Giant cities boom with ash clouds. Or they’re drowned by artificial two-hundred-meter tsunamis, when oceans boil under the monstrous megaton forces. That is no longer frightening, because everything within a radius of four hundred kilometers has already gone blind from the initial flash. In the sky, new armadas of hypersonic nuclear carriers. A terrible laser cannon chops them into a vinaigrette from beyond the horizon. But will it manage to intercept at least something? Underwater artillery systems of ultra-large caliber are already raising their fore-stems to launch the “last-resort” weapon—cobalt bombs.

And here’s the strange thing: when it starts, the general staff and even the emperors turn into nothing more than cogs in a big terrifying machine called NUCLEAR WAR.

You are about to read the most terrifying saga by the renowned master of fantastic techno-thriller Fedor Berezin.