Siberian Hellhole

Book excerpt: Post-Perestroika has visited Russia and Tobias the Muscovite is out of work and looking for just about anything to make ends meet. He moves to a remote outpost in Vodka Valley, Siberia, where his duty is to guard a plot of land for oil and gas exploration by The Rusky Company. At first isolated, cold, lonely, and feeling alienated, he has gradually grown accustomed to and even accepted by this remote wilderness. Little does the young watchman know that at night he is sleeping above a buried secret more hostile than Siberia's weather. Just beneath the surface gurgles the mouth of Hell, waiting to be opened and spew forth. Privy to the secret, an unholy band under Asmodeus, demon leader of dark forces, and Ethagoria Nebsonia, master of the Siberian Vampires, have taken up residence in this land. Their influence has caused humans to change in Vodka Valley. People have become more strange, indifferent, envious, greedy, and violent towards one another. The Devil prowls Vodka Valley looking for the ruination of souls, and expects the dark legions to plan and wreak havoc on an apocalyptic scale. But, thanks to the local Russian Orthodox Church's resurrection from the ruins of the communist regime and the revival of spirituality, the Devil may not have the last word in Vodka Valley.