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Set from the magnificent backdrop of Alaska in the waning days of World War II, The Cloud Atlas is definitely an enthralling debut novel, a tale of experience and awakening—and of the young soldier who came to Alaska on an exceptional, top-secret mission…and discovered a world that will haunt him forever.Drifting during the night, whisper-quiet, they certainly were the absolute most sublime manifestations of the determined foe: Japanese balloon bombs. Made of rice-paper, at once clever and dangerous, they sailed a large number of miles over the Pacific,and once they began landing, the U.S. scrambled groups to locate and defuse them, and then keep them secret from an already anxious public. Eighteen-year-old Louis Belk was some of those guys.