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Fascinated with the secrets still surrounding the Soviet Union's race contrary to the Americans to place a guy on the moon, Jed Mercurio proposes a compelling scenario: Imagine if the Americans weren't the first? And using its inscrutable but intriguing hero, Yefgeni Yeremin, a brilliant Soviet cosmonaut, Ascent allows us to imagine what that terrifying journey might have been like.Yeremin, a Soviet MiG pilot, rises from the privation of a Stalingrad orphanage to the heights of the cosmonaut corps. Through the Korean War, as an associate of at the very top squadron, he shoots down the most American fighter jets-a feat which should make him a national hero, but because the Soviets' involvement in the war is secret, Yeremin's victories go unreported. When he is recalled from obscurity to become listed on the race to the moon, he realizes it is his chance for immortality. In hypnotic, deceptively spare prose, Mercurio tells a haunting tale that questions the energy of ideology and the nature of fate.
