Khrushchev's Liaison

Are you sure you know everything about the Cuban Missile Crisis? Then you’re mistaken.

Washington, October 1962. She is leaving, managing to cast him a guilty look of farewell. A moment later—there’s a car and men in black in the window. There’s hardly any time. Escape via the fire escape, a desperate jump into the darkness… and at once—an ambush. In the icy shadow of the alley, his old enemy is waiting: CIA officer Sean Miles, dreaming of taking revenge for the earlier humiliation. There’s nowhere to retreat…

Trapped is Colonel Georgy Bolshakov. In public, he is listed as the editor of a magazine. In reality, he is the only covert communications channel between Khrushchev and Kennedy. The final fragile thread on which the world rests—stopping one step away from a nuclear catastrophe.

While the generals on both sides of the ocean prepare to issue the deadly order and reach for the red button, and while the planet, holding its breath, watches the standoff between Soviet and American ships off the Cuban coast, this agent is waging his invisible war.

This is a story of victory that saved humanity. A precise reconstruction of the real events, compiled from declassified archives. And every character in this story existed in reality.