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Atomic Winter by Travis Godbold is a concise, fast-paced little thriller with surreal overtones. Set largely in Norway in January of 1943, Atomic Winter has all the action you might expect from a WWII action thriller, but also has a supernatural flavor served up by the character of the wonderfully weird Lapp shaman who seems to be a perfect manifestation of the forbidding and spookily beautiful Norwegian winter landscape, ornamented with dazzling sunsets and shaggy pines. Caught between duplicitous allies and evil Nazis, alcoholic American skier Samuel and Norwegian ski bum Erik become inadvertently entangled in a plot to steal vital papers on a horrifying secret weapon from a Nazi outpost. After making a clumsy attempt to steal the papers from the Nazis, Samuel and Eric are captured after discovering that the papers have already been stolen by someone else. Shortly afterward, they are rescued by a strange blue-faced Lapp shaman that Samuel nicknames the "blue devil," and a stampede of graceful yet murderous reindeer. After they escape, the "blue devil" hides Samuel and Erik with his wandering Lapps, the people he calls the Sami. During their flight from the Nazis and time spent with the Lapps, Samuel discovers that the Shaman has the secret papers stolen from the Nazis--and conspires with Erik to steal them from his mysterious host and return them to the allied forces in exchange for a rich reward. The subsequent action, which encompasses a colorful mix of winter warfare and weird, semi-magical events is fast, fun and furious. In less than a hundred pages, Godbold creates a terrific action thriller with haunting overtones and magical highlights in a breathtaking setting that includes many fantastic ski chases in the Norway snows. This will be a perfect book to read on a winter evening by a roaring fire. If you stick close by the fire, maybe the blue devil won't get you!

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I have been skiing the salomon 99cm snowboards for several years and decided to try the Atomoc 123cm ski board to get more speed. These skis are perfect. You don't sacrifice any speed and the turns are so easy to make. If you have a beginner skier in your family or someone who has given up skiing, please have them try the short ski boards. They will LOVE skiing again.

I have been skiing short skis for about 8 years. I mostly skied Salomon Snowblades MiniMax 99.9 and Lines 99. I found that both had great control. But found was hard to ski in deeper powder and crude. I researched the Atomic ETL 123 before buying them. I have found the Atomic ETL 123 to be great fun, with excellent control. They are great in powder, groomed, and to crude. The release bindings worked great, without adding any weight (lighter than Salomon MiniMax 99.9 with Salomon C609 release binding). I liked the Atomic ETL 123 so much, I could not sell my Salomon 99.9 fast enough on ebay. All I ski is gladed and outback areas, and will never go back to longer skis. 5' 8" 175lbs. Skiing for 15 years.