Cosmonaut Yuri Kapalev has been sent on a secret Vostok voyage that was never announced by the Soviet space program. His mission? Surveillance on America's use of alien technology to jump ahead in the race to create newer, higher-tech space and spy plane equipment to win the battle for the heavens. But while Kapalev is aloft, he is witness to a rogue detonation that sets off the mutually assured destruction of a war no longer Cold. Follow as Kapalev watches the destruction of the planet from his perch hundreds of miles in orbit, and fulfills his mission in ways he never expected when he stepped on to the launch elevator at Baikonur...