IN TRANSIT MAY 28 Pechenga, Northern Coast of the Kola Peninsula, Russia (D MINUS 24) Rolf Ulrich Reichardt glanced out a dirty window toward the harbor below. Pechenga, he thought smugly again, was perfect for his purposes. Located twenty kilometers from the Norwegian bor...
Col. Robert O’Connell was on a secure line to Washington, listening grimly as his regimental commander, Col. Paul Gener, threw ten days’ worth of mission planning into the shit can The fact that it was a phone call he’d been half expecting since the news of Pretoria’s nuclear strike was no consol...
BLACKOUT. NOVEMBER 24 On the Potomac River, near Leesburg, Virginia. (D MINUS 21) A severe autumn storm the howling, roaring creation of high winds and driving sheets of ice-cold rain tore across Maryland and Virginia just after dark. The long, blac...