Zinovy's Journey is a speculative novel about a Russian cosmonaut who loses the whole world, and gains his soul.
ZINOVY EFIMOVICH KOZLOV is a self-made man who’s spent the last twenty-three years climbing the ladder of Russian military success, one rung at a time. An FSB veteran, Air Force fighter pilot, member of the elite Special Security Service, and now a cosmonaut on the global regime’s new International Space Station, he should be at the peak of his career. But Zinovy has enemies whose political power extends into space, and those enemies are determined to kill him.
Then the earth is destroyed in a nuclear holocaust and everything changes.
Excerpt
“You are to dispatch the target by whatever means you choose.” [Anton] sneered. “Do it your way if you like, no blood. Then dispose of the body and bring us photographic evidence that the mission has been accomplished.”
He paused. Zinovy stood, unmoving.
Anton said, “You will do it immediately, without further questions or delay.”
Zinovy put his hands on his hips and considered his options. His first choice, preferred but not practicable, would be to put Anton’s broken body at the bottom of the canal. He picked up the file and flipped it open. The name at the top of the document hit him like a stun gun to the chest. It took a full five seconds for the realization to settle into his brain, another two for the anger to erupt.
“You are insane,” he bellowed. “You are absolutely insane. This woman is no security threat. She’s a competent agent who does her job with integrity. She’s the last person to be a security risk.” He slammed the file down, sending its contents skittering across the desk and onto the floor at Anton’s feet.
Anton frowned. “Help us to understand this, Agent Kozlov. Are you refusing the order?”
Zinovy leaned down, put his hands on the desk in front of the chief and spoke in his face, enunciating each word. “I will not kill Nadya.”
Professional Reviews
A Speculative Must Read
Wow! This book blew me away! The description is magnificent, the characters believable, and the action just doesn’t stop. Despite its length, I couldn’t stop reading until I reached the final page. Bravo for ZINOVY’S JOURNEY and bravo for Ginny Jaques. If this book is any indication of things to come, Jaques is about to explode into the literary world with cosmic effects.
Tracy Krauss, best selling author and playwright
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An Uplifting and Inspirational Tale
In the not too distant future, one man struggles to recover himself. Zinovy has lost his world, his friends and his faith in the blink of an eye as his world is devastated. In a different kind of apocalypse, radiation destroys the non-living, but heals the living. Traveling to the new center of a new kingdom, Zinovy faces danger not only from without, but from within, and finds the true meaning of forgiveness and life.
Christian speculative fiction writer, Ginny Jaques has developed a vivid and breathtaking adventure along a journey of faith and love in this uplifting and inspirational tale.
Carol Parsons, author of Dictates of Conscience
An Important Novel of Our Time
ZINOVY'S JOURNEY is an important novel of our times which examines the precarious environmental and spiritual nature of human existence and, yet offers hope and substance to a more meaningful life and future.
Ginny Jaques has a masterful ability of creating imagery and details of human behaviour that connects viscerally with the reader, yet at the same time maintaining a fast pace of action and suspense in drawing the reader into wanting more. I did not want to delve too far into the novel because I was enjoying it so much I did not want it to come to an end. At the same time, it was so compelling, I could not put it down. Each page is riveting in its development of the plot, the characters and the conflict.
Ginny Jaques has a unique style where she brings forth a blend of masculine and feminine approaches to the descriptive action, the characters, the language, and the humour. In essence, she writes like a man in providing masculinity to the physical, sexual, logical, action and technical parts of the story; but, she is equally skilled in providing feminine insights to the philosophical, emotional, sensitive, ethical, and spiritual aspects of the story. This creates a wonderful juxtaposition that plays like a beautiful piece of music that layers in intensity, boldness, ethereal quality, emotionality and softness.
Also impressive is Jaques technical knowledge of things scientific, geographical, historical, cultural; and the ease in which she is able to seamlessly fit it into the story.
Ginny Jaques is a truly gifted writer - Zinovy's Journey does not present as a first piece of work, but that of a seasoned writer of many novels.
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