The Russian: A Spy Thriller

"Good book. Smart and detailed in its touch and overwhelmingly enjoyable." The Russian is a gripping spy thriller about the greatest of all World War II dramas, the secret construction and detonation of the Atomic Bomb in New Mexico in July of 1945. The thriller’s rapid five-day countdown carries the reader from the dangerous back streets of Santa Fe to the story’s violent climax high in New Mexico’s Sierra Oscura Mountains overlooking the site of the world’s first atomic explosion. In this powerful story Army counter-intelligence Captain John Callahan is targeted for death by his own government as he races against time to stop a Russian spy on the eve of the first atomic bomb explosion. Unknown to Callahan, elements within the Army OSS want the Russian spy to witness the A-Bomb detonation and carry photos and measurements back to the Soviet Union (the beginning of the Cold War). Warned off by his own colonel, yet obedient to his orders to stop the Russian, Captain Callahan pushes his fears aside, hides the woman and child he loves from death threats, and begins a five-day kill or be killed cat and mouse game of running down the Russian spy.