His knees are brass, built by a secret Army program after a land mine took his own. Around forty below, the oil inside them hardens like candle wax. This mission will take him across a Siberian winter at fifty below.

An anonymous package warns of a rogue Soviet weapon hidden in the taiga, a gun that hurls steel with electricity, aimed over the top of the world at an American radar station in Alaska. It will be ready by the winter solstice. Bombers can't go, and a team would be heard. So the Army drops one man with a knife, snare wire, a syringe for greasing his joints, and a rifle that aims by sound.

Ahead lies a country the weapon has thawed out of the permafrost: black sleet, boiling bogs, dead sentries crusted in frost, and wolves with metal teeth. In the heat, his knees run silent while the boiling ground drowns out every sound his rifle needs. In the deep cold, sound carries for miles, and his failing joints start to whine.

The engineer who built those knees, the only man who ever knew how to open them, defected to the Soviets three years ago.

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