With one mysterious e-mail, Bobby Kungenook—the teenage hockey phenom living undercover and guarding part of a revolutionary scientific breakthrough—realizes someone else shares his secret. The sender summons Bobby from New York to a rendezvous in radioactive Japan. There, with the help of Bobby’s guardian, Nadia Tesla, the two will forever alter mankind’s destiny.
But dangerous people from Bobby’s haunted past are hot on his heels, determined to possess what could be the power of life and death. And when the enigmatic e-mail sender, Genesis II, is kidnapped after a bloody showdown on the scarred streets of Fukushima, Bobby must tap into his remarkable abilities to pursue the brutal captors into the forbidding reaches of Siberia—and the land where his journey began.
As the Nadia Tesla series races to its stunning conclusion on the frozen shores of Lake Baikal, the boy from reactor four will claim his fate and become a legend.
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About the Author
Born in America to Ukrainian immigrants, Orest Stelmach spoke no English when beginning his education, and went on to graduate from Dartmouth College and the University of Chicago. He has worked a variety of jobs, from dishwasher and shelf stocker to English teacher in Japan and international investment portfolio manager. The Boy Who Glowed in the Dark is his third novel, following The Boy From Reactor 4 and The Boy Who Stole From the Dead. He lives in Simsbury, Connecticut.
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“The fate of the world depends on us.”
With one mysterious e-mail, Bobby Kungenook—the teenage hockey phenom living undercover and guarding part of a revolutionary scientific breakthrough—realizes someone else shares his secret. The sender summons Bobby from New York to a rendezvous in radioactive Japan. There, with the help of Bobby’s guardian, Nadia Tesla, the two will forever alter mankind’s destiny.
But dangerous people from Bobby’s haunted past are hot on his heels, determined to possess what could be the power of life and death. And when the enigmatic e-mail sender, Genesis II, is kidnapped after a bloody showdown on the scarred streets of Fukushima, Bobby must tap into his remarkable abilities to pursue the brutal captors into the forbidding reaches of Siberia—and the land where his journey began.
As the Nadia Tesla series races to its stunning conclusion on the frozen shores of Lake Baikal, the boy from reactor four will claim his fate and become a legend.
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About the Author
Born in America to Ukrainian immigrants, Orest Stelmach spoke no English when beginning his education, and went on to graduate from Dartmouth College and the University of Chicago. He has worked a variety of jobs, from dishwasher and shelf stocker to English teacher in Japan and international investment portfolio manager. The Boy Who Glowed in the Dark is his third novel, following The Boy From Reactor 4 and The Boy Who Stole From the Dead. He lives in Simsbury, Connecticut.