Screaming Angels: How the Soviets stole Rolls Royce's best jet engine and built the greatest fighter in the world

Lazlo Ferran · AI-narrated by Archie (from Google)
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How the Soviets stole Rolls Royce's best jet engine and built the greatest fighter in the world


1946: A Soviet delegation is collecting ten examples of the Rolls Royce Nene engine, at that time the most powerful jet engine in the world. Their plan: to steal the secrets of the engine's classified rotor material and duplicate it.


Rolls Royce manager Edward struggles to foil the Russians while trying to understand his feelings for beautiful Soviet delegate Yulia, knowing the tragic consequences if he fails.


Hot love in the Cold War, set against one of the strangest deals the British ever made with Soviet Russia and one that would infuriate the USA.


Categories: romance, RAF, Russia, NKVD, Viktor Yugano, defection, V2, V-2, rocket, Derby, Blitz, suspense, atomic, war, mole, DPRK, angling, spy, engineer, Stafford, Cripps, turbofan, history, Vladimir Klimov, 1950s, Bulgaria, Nimonic 88, thriller, MIG-15, Stalin, traitor, aeronautics, Korea, suspense, Mikoyan-Gurevich, Soviet Union, Clement Attlee, KGB, military, Rolls Royce, Nene engine, jet, V-1, memory

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Lazlo Ferran: Exploring the Landscapes of Truth


Educated near Oxford, during English author Lazlo Ferran’s extraordinary life, he has been an aeronautical engineering student, dispatch rider, graphic designer, full-time busker, guitarist and singer with two albums recorded, and purveyor of philosophical thoughts. Having grown up in rural Buckinghamshire Lazlo says:


“The beautiful Chiltern Hills offered the ideal playground for a child’s mind, in contrast to the ultra-strict education system of Bucks.”


Brought up as a Buddhist, he has travelled widely, surviving a student uprising in Athens and living for a while in Cairo, just after Sadat’s assassination. Later, he spent some time in Central Asia and was only a few blocks away from gunfire during an attempt to storm the government buildings of Bishkek in 2006. He has a keen interest in theologies and philosophies of the Far East, Middle East, Asia and Eastern Europe.


After a long and successful career within the science industry, Lazlo Ferran left to concentrate on writing, to continue exploring the landscapes of truth.

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