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Black Watch is the first novel from acclaimed author Patrick O'Leary, who wrote the unforgettable short story "Georgia Tech Application Essay" and co-authored the seminal novellas "Frisbee™ Throwing Device" and "Titanium and the SR-71." Now, in his first-ever full length work, O'Leary explores the world of aeronautical engineering during the Cold War, and how one Soviet engineer with unfathomable skill unknowingly holds the fate of the world in his grasp!

Come on a journey which follows Alexandre Polichnykov from the offices of Mikoyan-Gurevich into a world of espionage, intrigue, and adventure, where trust is fleeting and what he thinks he knows is wrong. The free world waits with bated breath...

See what the critics are saying about Black Watch!

"O'Leary dares call this a novel? It offends my every sensibility, lacking a plot with any complexity, and containing even notes from the author which look like they were meant to direct his thinking!"

—Newsweek

"Black Watch breaks new ground in storytelling. The novel is pure story, without any intent to deepen his characters to produce the sort of themes that we're so used to seeing, about life and death, the nature of love, or even about race or the role of women in society. He neatly skirts these deep issues by completely ignoring them—and it works!"

—Rolling Stone

"Craptastical!"

—Variety

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Black Watch is available in stores now! Buy it in time for Christmas!