Escape from Chernobyl

From Andy Marino, author of The Plotto Kill Hitler series, comes another fast-paced historicalthriller chronicling one family's desperate bid to escape the deadlyChernobyl disaster.26 April 198601:18Alina & Lev are two siblings living in Pripyat, one of theSoviet Union's proud nuclear cities. Both are asleep in their beds.Their cousin, Yuri, is a custodian at the Chernobyl Nuclear PowerPlant, where he's fiercely attacking a spill in the hallway witha mop.Alina's best friend, Sofiya, sleeps just a few doors down. Herfather is an engineer at the plant, a fact that has always filledher with pride.In five minutes, Reactor No. 4 will explode in a ball of fire.It will expel radiation across their town for nine days before it'sfinally contained. For the people of Pripyat, it will be fartoo late.  Two young siblings flee the Chernobyl disaster with their parents,but the Communist party is on their heels. Meanwhile, the friendsand family they were forced to leave behind must contend witha disinformation campaign that's determined to pretend nothingis wrong-even as deadly radiation spills into the air.