Sine Qua Non

The Russian winter of 1953 is a bitter one and Iola Primakov would like nothing more than to be swept up and away from her lonely rural existence and her marriage to Fydor, the quietly sadistic chief of security at the nearby (and top secret) Kapustin Yar research base.

The arrival of downed RAF reconnaissance pilot James Faron, however, was far from what she had in mind...