David Placeres

Sunless Shadows David Placeres

This is a story that originated decades ago; it's about personal search into a part of the world that awed and fascinated the author, and of discovery, looking for answers and eventually finding that decades of political repression did nothing to squelch the human spirit and people's natural and spontaneous desire to extend assistance, kindness, and friendship even to strangers. It is a story bout human emotions, about love... and about passion, about reaching the summit... and descending from it. This is not a story about arriving at a destination, but about living life, pursuing a dream, being open to adventure, and accepting the outcome. Because after all, life is a journey and we enrich our selves when we refuse to be spectators and decide to take an active part in it. Read this journey and find out how many pleasant surprises can come your way if you just go out an open yourself to them. Follow the author through Siberia and Moscow and chase after his steps with detailed and vivid descriptions of his travel experiences. Enter his mind and heart and thrill with him as he discovers that feelings know no physical barrier, and are only subject to fate and time. On this third edition, the author added a full new chapter, which carries the story to full circle, closing the gaps, expanding the story for another ten days, and bringing light to events that he thought had occurred spontaneously and by coincidence. The story was updated to present day, 2020, with new information, transformational by its nature. And inasmuch as the author had tried to keep the Russian government only on a historical perspective over the whole book, this is still a country that stealthy intrudes in people's lives, and they made him a subject of interest, and under the watchful eye of the police state. The main element of Ian Fleming's spy novels played its role in the story, though, unintentionally.