Ascent Author:Jed Mercurio, Wesley Robins A truly stunning novel ? spare, powerful and ultimately awesome ? Ascent will propel Jed Mercurio into the first rank of British novelists. — Yefgenil Yeremin is a flyer and he is a phantom. — In the Korean War he shoots down more American jets than any other pilot in history. He becomes the legendary ace dubbed ?Ivan the Terrible.? But the Soviet... more » Union?s involvement in Korea must be kept secret, so his name remains unknown, his victories uncelebrated.« less