1962.
A hastily abandoned Soviet station sits marooned on the polar plain—its antennas frozen stiff, its machinery half-sunk, everything left behind for the Arctic to swallow. Too far inland for a ship, too icy for a runway, too remote for a helicopter, it’s unreachable.
But the CIA wants those secrets, and now, a few yards away from the collapsing station, two near-frozen volunteers hold a strange stance. They crouch, knees flexed and boots biting the floe. Each one is clipped into a harness that sends a nylon tether rising from their chests and disappearing into the clouds above.
Then the hum of engines breaks the air.
A shape pushes through the haze: a B-17, with two scissor-like horns jutting from its nose, lines up with the strange silver object at the end of the tether.
The men brace as the line snaps tight.
Their ride is here.
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