This is the dual-language Russian/English edition of Spirit Falls (Ледоход) , the first book in Robert Townsend’s Long War series.
In 1947, the Soviet security services named the United States as ‘the main enemy.’ The Cold War is joined. Four children, born half-worlds apart, children of their nations’ greatest generation, come of age in the 1950s, each in their small-town Eden, cast out to encounter one another on the front lines in the war for control of the imagination.
Two Russians, Danton Larionov and Ekaterina Soroka, one American, Richard Belisle, and a Canadian, Marie Jeanne Charbonneau, the youngest of children at that time will cross paths and cross swords, stalking, seeking one another across the world. They trust and double-cross,––fast friends and bitter enemies, give faith and deceive, strive for morality in an immoral world.
Spirit Falls is the first novel in “The Long War” series. The Korean War rages when the little girl wearing big overalls appears in a one-room Spirit Falls Graded School on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Marie Jeanne Charbonneau, a French-Canadian, befriends Ricky Belisle, half-Serb, half-Scots-Irish, all mongrel. They live isolated on a land far away. But they don’t really. Strangers, carriers of dis-ease. come to town. Ricky and Marie Jeanne survive a Lake Superior storm gaining their first knowledge of good and evil.
