The buzzer

This gripping new novel is based around the creepy urban legend of the same name.

A Russian radio station has been broadcasting and letting out a buzz every other second since the 1970s.

Every few months, the buzzing is suddenly interrupted by a voice saying a series of numbers and code words.

Then the buzzing starts up again. A number of theorists suggest that it's a secret military communication method, or that it may even be a countermeasure for nuclear war.

Natalya Kovalski, a journalist, and Stepan Litvin, a short-wave radio enthusiast and computer programmer, visit an abandoned military base together in Povarovo which is suspected to have once been the source of the transmissions.

But what they find may have chilling consequences...