Beware the Jabberwock (Post Cold War Political Thriller, Vol. 1)

It's 1991. A world-changing conspiracy takes shape as the Cold War sputters to a close and the Soviet Union disintegrates. International telephone intercepts soon trigger a CIA investigation into the nebulous codeword "Jabberwock." Burke Hill, his tarnished FBI career ended years earlier after dismissal by a surly J. Edgar Hoover, is recruited to help an old CIA buddy, Cameron Quinn, whose superiors downplay Jabberwock's dangerous potential. When an accident stops Quinn in Hong Kong, the CIA brass warns Hill to drop the investigation. Knowing Quinn's fears about the operation, Hill and Quinn's daughter, Lorelei, continue the chase. Rogue elements on both sides of the old Iron Curtain work to stop them, along with a relentless Federal bureaucracy. As the clock ticks down on Jabberwork, Burke and Lori realize they are the only hope of stopping a plot to assassinate the American and Russian presidents.