Red Traitor

An electrifying new thriller set during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis,seen from a bone-chilling vantage point: somewhere off the Florida coastlinetrapped aboard the claustrophobic confines of an isolated Soviet submarine with open orders to fire its nuclear payload. For fans of Philip Kerr and Alan Furst. The year is 1962and KGB Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vasin is chasing a white elephant: the long-rumored existence of an American spy embedded at the highest echelon of Soviet power. In a wild goose chase that has Vasin engaged in high-stakes espionage against a rival State agencyhe first hears whispers of an ominous top-secret undertaking: Operation Anadyr. As tensions flare between Nikita Khrushchev and President Kennedy over Russian missiles hidden in Cubafour Soviet submarines are ordered to make a covert run at the American blockade in the Caribbean–each sub carrying tactical ballistic missiles armed with thermonuclear warheads. Critically acclaimed novelist Owen Matthews has crafted an incredibly taut thriller around one of the most treacherous moments in modern historywhere the fate of the world rested with the itchy trigger finger of one lone Soviet naval officer100 meters under the seaout of all contact with his commanders.