Before Cassie and Trey leave, they are contacted by General Hank Stevenson, who relays that two of the Fury's sons, the Furies of Leningrad and Stalingrad, have assaulted Pearl Harbor and are now heading for Los Angeles. Of course, there is also Cobalt Blue, and this is who we are hearing the story from, Cassie Cassowitz (I’m so glad that Reilly went with a cool superhero alias name! Russia doesn’t score much love these days in the West, and making the Russian superhero purely evil adds to the book's populist appeal.

The scenes are quite gruesomely graphic at times and I was clapping for Golden Gary, Cassie and her husband Trey. For at the start of this story, Cobalt, Cassie’s mum dies, and the day after the funeral (like only hours later), The Fury of Russia attacks the US, seeking the ‘Children of Cobalt’ to come and kill them all. Upon the probe's landing in the Arctic, an American science team and a Russian special forces unit were sent to retrieve its samples.

Yet in spite of their great abilities, both continued to age as normal humans do, and Cobalt, already older than the Fury by two decades, eventually passes away at age 79.

Heads up though, getting the cast of characters right in your head does take a little time, but once you’re up to speed, it’s off and running. Trey scoffs when Cassie relays this, and reminds her that she and her father beat two of the Fury's sons before. Cassie refuses and questions why he came at all; Black forlornly notes that she is one of the few people he feels he can have a relatively equal conversation with before departing.Odessa and Kazan admitted that their government's agencies have little intel on Cassie, and their intent to gift both her and Arnold's heads to their father. However his brawl with Fury of Russia goes no better than his siblings', and after Cobalt Red is killed, the Fury acknowledges his fighting spirit before going on to decimate Chicago. Cobalt and Sergeant Furin found that they were evenly matched, and while the former was selfless, working to understand her powers and defend peoples' lives when they needed her, Furin was tyrannical, viscously reclaiming the old Soviet republics and taking whatever he desired, earning the moniker the Fury of Russia.

With ‘Cobalt’ gone, the only thing standing in Russia’s way is her legacy: seven children, each possessing a fraction of her powers.To Cassie's astonishment, Black denounces their mother's actions serving America, believing that they should be rulers themselves. Reilly is more interested in increasing stakes, fun, the high-speed action with brutal fight sequences. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Watching from afar, Cobalt Black is annoyed to see the Fury narrowly escape the blast and fly into the stratosphere, then walks away.