A Flash of Blue Sky: A Thirtover Novel

Fiction. In his debut novel, Alon Preiss tells a truly global tale: a gun- toting Moscow starlet, on the run from the mob, in a Russia struggling to rise from the embers of Communism. A beautiful young divorcee, lost on the West Coast, seeking a soul-mate without an overabundance of optimism. A prince, overthrown in a bloody revolution, wanders the world looking for the woman who once saved him. An attorney in New York, choosing between the two women who love him, and between failure and corruption. A Cambodian warlord, plotting a return to power from his jungle hideout ... Welcome to the 1980s, and a turbulent world eating itself alive. "Alon Preiss knows how to tell a gripping story, and he tells several in this ambitious debut novel. The main character, however, may be a period in time--the nineteen eighties and nineties when Russia was shaking from the collapse of Communism... A FLASH OF BLUE SKY should make a careful reader feel part of an exciting world in flux."--Jay Greenfield, author, MAX'S DIAMONDS (Chickadee Prince Books, 2016)