Information for Literary Agents, Editors, and Foreign Rights Buyers

Echo of the Cold War: Project S.H.I.L.O. by Alexey Tuzov (Complete at 60,000 words).

100-Word Pitch (exact count: 100 words):

Echo of the Cold War: Project S.H.I.L.O. is a complete 60,000-word Cold War naval and espionage satire, written in Russian and translated into English by the author. In August 1990, Captain First Rank Ivan Grimlivy commands K-1313 Ivasi, a titanium midget submarine clad in bootlegged Thai orthopedic pillows. Because computers cannot decode the Navy's 82-Hertz transmitter, his communications officer drinks 190-proof technical spirit and headbutts a bulkhead frame. When a rescued Norwegian castaway smuggles footage of the ritual to Fort Meade inside a bar of 72-percent laundry soap, the NSA mistakes naval folklore for a Soviet biochemical neural superweapon.

150-Word Short Synopsis (exact count: 150 words):

In August 1990, Captain First Rank Ivan Grimlivy commands K-1313 Ivasi, an unchartable Soviet titanium submarine coated in melted-down Thai orthopedic pillows and berthed inside a toxic Kola cavern under white-gloved Rear Admiral Regini. To receive 82-Hertz orders from the underground Zeus transmitter, Pamir mystic Dzhamshed Rahmonzoda drinks half a liter of 95-percent technical spirit and headbutts Frame 18. After the crew rescues Norwegian castaway Adun Hestviken, who wears a gold royal 【entity-Breitling¦canonical_name=Breitling】 with a hidden camera, Adun films the ritual and smuggles the tape to Fort Meade inside a brick of 72-percent laundry soap. Synesthetic NSA cryptographer Eddie Suspiciono unpacks the slang word S.H.I.L.O. as Sub-Harmonic Isotonic Liquid Oxygenator. As Eddie replicates the headbutting protocol with Everclear and Soviet drafting fonts, his decodings send the U.S. Navy chasing phantom submarines across the Bermuda Triangle, Lake Michigan, and the Great Salt Lake, proving that human incompetence saved the entire world.

Comparable Titles Paragraph:

Positioned in the adult upmarket satirical and Cold War espionage space, the novel combines the institutional military absurdity of Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and Jaroslav Hasek's The Good Soldier Svejk with the cynical intelligence misfires of Mick Herron's Slow Horses, the bureaucratic farce of The Death of Stalin, the picaresque plotting of Jonas Jonasson, and the post-Soviet deadpan of Maria Reva's Endling and Mikhail Bulgakov.