Flight of the Cosmonaut    by wrightdavid
Price: $4.95 USD. 86610 words. Published by The Fiction Works  on November 2, 2011. Fiction.
Georgi Petrov is a brave, young Soviet test pilot recruited into the secret cosmonaut corps to make history as the first man in space, or die trying.  But after a few short weeks of training behind the Iron Curtain, he quickly finds himself caught in a dangerous world of volatile rockets, lethal KGB agents, tyrannical commanders and mysterious rocket scientists.