The Boy from Reactor 4, Orest Stelmach
The Boy from Reactor 4, Orest Stelmach
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The Boy from Reactor 4

Author: Orest Stelmach

Narrator: Tanya Eby

Unabridged: 9 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 03/19/2013

Synopsis

Nadia’s memories of her father are not happy ones. An angry, secretive man, he died when she was thirteen, leaving his past shrouded in mystery. When a stranger claims to have known her father during his early years in Eastern Europe, she agrees to meet—only to watch the man shot dead on a city sidewalk. With his last breath, he whispers a cryptic clue, one that will propel Nadia on a high-stakes treasure hunt from New York to her ancestral homeland of Ukraine. There she meets an unlikely ally: Adam, a teenage hockey prodigy who honed his skills on the abandoned cooling ponds of Chernobyl. Physically and emotionally scarred by radiation syndrome, Adam possesses a secret that could change the world—if she can keep him alive long enough to do it. A twisting tale of greed, secrets, and lies, The Boy from Reactor 4 will keep readers guessing until the final heart-stopping page.

About Orest Stelmach

Orest Stelmach was born in Connecticut, the child of Ukrainian immigrants. He didn’t speak English until he began school as a child, going on to earn academic degrees from Dartmouth College and the University of Chicago. Along the way he earned his living washing dishes and stocking department-store shelves, later teaching English in Japan and managing international investments. In 2012, his short story “In Persona Christi” was published in the Mystery Writers of America anthology Vengeance. He speaks Ukrainian, Spanish, and Japanese. The Boy from Reactor 4 is his first novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by L.A. on March 31, 2019

Whoa--this book was so much fun! The protagonist is a Ukrainian woman from Connecticut, but the action takes place in New York, Ukraine, and Russia. While there's an information dump here and there, readers will enjoy the suspense, authentic dialogue, wily characters, and the bond between the protag......more

Goodreads review by Pete on February 06, 2012

I've read over 40 mystery/suspense/thriller novels during the past 18 months, and none of them circumnavigate the globe. Orest Stelmach's The Boy From Reactor 4 does that - and everything else - with elan and eclat. This is the story of an American woman who is sucked into the global search for a "se......more

Goodreads review by David on September 20, 2017

Nadia Tesla, a mid-thirties New York woman of Ukrainian descent, gets drawn into travelling to Ukraine to meet a long lost uncle and cousin. The story involves various groups of Ukrainian criminals, two based in the US and one in Ukraine, and a trip to Chernobyl. Not quite good enough for 4 stars, b......more

Goodreads review by Katya on March 28, 2013

Reading a book that features your stomping grounds can go one of two ways; either the author gets all the details right down to the local accent and last blade of grass, or you read an obviously-cobbled-together-from-Wikipedia version of your city/country. Bravo to Orest Stelmach for getting it all......more

Goodreads review by Sky on April 17, 2013

Nadia Tesla is an unemployed Ukrainian American woman who is thrust into an exciting adventure when a man claiming to be a friend of her father’s is shot beside her. His last words to her; “Find Damien, Find Andrew Steen. Millions. Fate of free world” pushes her into an exciting mystery filled with......more

Quotes

“A top-notch, fast-moving thriller with gripping authenticity from Stelmach’s knowledge of politics, history, and crime in Eastern Europe and America.” —Neil McMahon, New York Times bestselling author of Toys and Dead Silver“Stelmach brilliantly pairs breakneck pacing with heart-of-gold insights into regions as beautiful as they are troubled. The Boy From Reactor 4 is phenomenal.” —Dan Mayland, author of The Colonel’s Mistake and The Leveling“Bravo to Orest Stelmach for getting it all right…I’ve lived in Alaska, Ukraine, and Siberia, three of the locations featured in the story, and he paints life as it is in those places. I’d swear the characters are real people pulled off the streets. The locations…are laid out brilliantly before the reader.” —Eight Months in Ukraine“Sweeps you up with…espionage, danger and action. Plot twists and turns all the way through the end.” —Night Owl Reviews

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