Pandora's Curse

Author’s Notes

I’ve tried to blend a great deal of history into this story and have taken some license to make it work, but maybe not as much as you’d think. Project Iceworm was a real operation, but their Camp Century was built in 1960 about 150 miles from Thule on Greenland’s west coast. The story Erwin Puhl tells about Hitler’s operation on Rugen Island is true. The real U-1062 was a cargo sub that was sunk in the Atlantic after delivering a load of torpedoes to Indonesia for the Nazi’s Monsun boats, their secret Indian Ocean Wolf Pack.

As for Rasputin and the truth behind the Tunguska explosion? The mystic had been exiled from St. Petersburg at the time I place him near the explosion site. Many eyewitnesses did report that a portion of the object that slammed into the Russian taiga continued on in a northwesterly direction. Leonid Kulik was the first scientist to study the area and he did die as a prisoner of war. To date, science has yet to come up with a full explanation of that mysterious cataclysm because no physical debris has ever been found. So who’s to say what it was? Comet? Asteroid? Space-ship? Or the final misery to spill from Pandora’s box?