Bart Gauvin og Joel Radunzel The Battle of Bear Island

The Arctic wind swept down on them from Mount Misery, it pierced every fiber of clothing and nerve they possessed. "They're here," said Grimes "Good, let's warm this place up," responded Foster as he crawled into position. There, emerging from the haze of blowing snow were a group of Soviet soldiers. Evenly spaced in a long file, picking their way through the drifts and white crusted rocks. Looking. Searching for something or someone, whatever mysterious ghost had been lurking out of their reach. Foster knew that the Russians had just found what they were looking for, but he planned to make that a costly discovery. The Battle of Bear Island is set in the Northern Fury world where a hardline government deposed Mikhail Gorbachev and reasserted Moscow's control of rebellious Soviet Republics. Three years later, in February 1994, the USSR lashes out against the economic strangulation imposed by the west and initiates a war to destabilise Europe and NATO. Bear Island is a tiny spec of land between the North Cape of Norway and the Svalbard Archipelago. An island so remote and desolate, few even knew of its existence, until both the Soviets and NATO want to use it as a base to monitor each other.