In September 1976, Viktor Belenko defected to Japan in his MiG-25 Foxbat jet fighter, one of the most well-known defections from the Soviet block. But in that same year, there was another defection so embarrassing to the Soviets that its particulars remained a secret for more than twenty-five years. All media accounts of Soviet TU-95 flights participating in the Okean 76 naval maneuvers mention only two planes. Whenever they were confronted in private, however, the Soviets acknowledged that in reality, "three" planes took off from Russia, with the third aircraft crashing at sea, killing everyone aboard. Since it sank in deep waters, no one attempted to salvage the wreck.

But what the Soviet authorities never acknowledged publicly or privately was that the third TU-95 made a bold and risky flight from the USSR to Canada. Because its crew defected, the Soviets never admitted that such an event happened. "Bear: Flight to Liberty" tells the third crew s thrilling story.

"BEAR" is the product of Vargas-Caba s meticulous research into the Soviet Armed Forces and provides an authenticity few books on the subject can match. His careful marshalling of real-world facts to develop his work of fiction makes "BEAR" an exciting read for anyone who wants to remember how much was at stake during the Cold War.
Nate Braden, co-author of "The Last Sentry"
After years of distinguished service for the country s air force Mikhail is court-martialed, demoted and sent to finish his career in the backwaters of the mother country. Deemed politically unreliable, Mikhail forever a Russian but never a Communist Party member bridles under Soviet rule and eventually plans a daring airborne escape. To do so, he must convince his crew to leave with him, develop a viable flight plan and avoid the potentially fatal attention of innumerable Soviet military officers and KGB stooges. The author tells Mikhail s tale with meticulous care; his account is thoroughly detailed and filled with the depth of research that turns rough histories into credible recreations. Kirkus Discoveries

Cottswold Ommony has guts and influence. He's in the Secret Service, and heading for McGregor's office. No one in India knows what Ommony will do next.And it's a good thing. Because there are evils on the land -- evils like OM, the Secret of the Abhor Valley.(Jacketless library hardcover)

After spying in China for six years, Logan was assigned to Argentina and he was changed from an operative to a singleton. No one, in any country knows who is a singleton. Singletons are known only to certain men in the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Singletons always operate alone. They are given an assignment, but they decide what course of action to take. Logan started the Falklands War in Argentina and after Argentina lost, free elections came about. Two months later, Logan was assigned to Brazil and introduced to a world that he knew nothing of-the ruthless, world of the multi-nationals. His assignment, stop them from buying up America. When al Qaeda attacked the twin towers the multi-nationals saw it as an opportunity. Logan ends up fighting both the multi-nationals and al Qaeda. He uses all the tools of the Dark Art, the tools of lies, deceit, deception, treachery and eliminations. These tools always lead to an agonizing path of destruction and death. As the multi-nationals and al Qaeda, would soon learn. They too, would learn that Logan Winn was unrelenting, and he was. They sent a beautiful assassin to kill Logan, but they fell in love and both took on the multi-nationals and al Qaeda.

It was only to be a summer job. In fact, it was supposed to be the perfect summer job to add on his resume for college, working at a United Nations Consulate in an international guesthouse. But Eric sensed something unusual about his job in this place shortly after he started. Was it the secrecy of the men who leased the guesthouse, or the consulate itself? Who were these men and what were they doing? Little did he know that finding out would definitely change his life, forever.

December 1803: A French invasion fleet is poised to cross the Channel and storm the beaches of southern England. A member of Napoleon's inner circle-disaffected by Napoleon's creeping tyranny-contacts the British naval intelligence service in hopes of defecting to London. His escape plan calls for a rendezvous at an international chess tournament in Frankfurt-a rare opportunity for him to travel outside France. Naval intelligence sends its top man-and best chess player-Captain Thomas Grey, to orchestrate the Frenchman's escape to England. But Grey's mission changes dramatically when the defector demands that his pro-Napoleon daughter come with him-expecting Grey to act not just as escort but kidnapper. The second novel in J. H. Gelernter's already lauded Captain Grey series, Captain Grey's Gambit continues a story that is "smart, fast, twisty, and dangerous" (Lee Child) in a "richly imagined early nineteenth-century world" (Richard Snow).

A MOSSAD assassin who has lost her cover, Sydney is hiding in Florida. Syd thinks it's her lucky day when a handsome stranger at the next table helps her dispatch two Iranian terrorists that attack her at a restaurant. She is pleased to find out that Hatch Lincoln is a very rich and powerful man -- CEO of a dozen companies, including the enigmatic Intelligence International, Inc. (Triple Eye). Fearing Syd is still in trouble, Hatch takes her to his Florida mansion. Syd soon finds herself engulfed in Hatch's secret world of intrigue, one of high-tech equipment and weapons used to search out and neutralize terrorists worldwide.

When a Triple Eye employee is killed while buying a mysterious letter from a dig outside Rome, Syd finds herself swept into a dangerous, whirlwind adventure. She accompanies Hatch to Rome to investigate, and while in Hatch's medieval castle, she finds herself fighting along side Hatch against a vicious Italian crime family, the Sicilian Mafia, and a CIA boss who wants Hatch dead. When an assassin's bullet leaves Hatch in a coma, Syd must use all her training, experience, and the high-tech tools of Hatch's empire to find the assassin before he strikes again.

At once a vivid, haunting reimagining of 1950s Britain, a gripping, humane spy thriller and a poignant love story, with Dominion C. J. Sansom once again asserts himself as the master of the historical novel. 1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. As the long German war against Russia rages on in the east, the British people find themselves under dark authoritarian rule: the press, radio and television are controlled; the streets patrolled by violent auxiliary police and British Jews face ever greater constraints. There are terrible rumours too about what is happening in the basement of the German Embassy at Senate House. Defiance, though, is growing. In Britain, Winston Churchill's Resistance organization is increasingly a thorn in the government's side. And in a Birmingham mental hospital an incarcerated scientist, Frank Muncaster, may hold a secret that could change the balance of the world struggle for ever. Civil Servant David Fitzgerald, secretly acting as a spy for the Resistance, is given the mission to rescue his old friend Frank and get him out of the country. Before long he, together with a disparate group of Resistance activists, will find themselves fugitives in the midst of London's Great Smog; as David's wife Sarah finds herself drawn into a world more terrifying than she ever could have imagined. And hard on their heels is Gestapo Sturmbannfuhrer Gunther Hoth, brilliant, implacable hunter of men . . . 'An absorbing, thoughtful, spy-politico thriller set in the fog-ridden London of 1952 . . . Part adventure, part espionage, all encompassed by terrific atmosphere and a well-argued "it might have been". - The Times

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XILLOS" (ZEE-los) is a story of intrigue woven around a quintet of major characters whose lives intertwine through stages of survival, ambition, love, violence, and revenge. The beginning finds us twenty years in the future where WorldGovernment sans frontiers has been established. "XILLOS" is now the enforcerof peace on planet Earth, ushering in a new order of law and justice. All iswell until one of the Committee of Nine, the highest office that rules, cunningly perpetrates an act of duplicity and subterfuge.

Two brilliant doctors and a Supreme Court justice collaborate to change theworld. A death camp survivor stumbles on a new, and most importantinvention of the millennium. The rapacious CEO of one of the world'slargest companies embarks on a quest that unravels in a way he never couldhave anticipated. His most trusted employee carries out his directives withan alarming ruthlessness and brutality. A teenage boy finds himself aninnocent fugitive and is stymied in his efforts to extricate himself as thetarget of both an assassin and the police, eventually becoming an unwittinghero. The closing pages stun and surprise even the cleverest of mystery buffs.