Darkness at Dawn - Softcover

Hands, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061008915 ISBN 13: 9780061008917

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1995

Synopsis

Taras Stepaniak, a half-Russian, half-Ukrainian opportunist, is hired by the leader of Russian militant nationalists who want to seize the Soviet nuclear arsenal, but Taras's divided loyalties threaten to tear him apart. Reprint.

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Taras Stepaniak is half Russian, half Ukrainian, a self serving womaniser easily recruited by the Russian patriot, Colonel Nikolai Krasin, to help destabilise the newly independent Ukraine, a country which has inherited a crippling Soviet economy – and a lethal Soviet nuclear arsenal.

The amoral Stepeniak spins his web of treachery around the aspiring democrats of the new nation, but the greater his betrayals, the deeper he sees into his own soul.

Too late. He is trapped in a deadly game that is being played out to a terrifying conclusion.

“A well researched, compellingly plausible thriller ... the climax is explosive”
THE EUROPEAN

“The author appears to know more than your average thriller writer might reasonably be expected to know about rivalries between the former Soviet republics in general and their nuclear weapons in particular ... a rip-roaring read and the suspense is sustained to the very last page”
THE INDEPENDENT

“A moving, remarkable book”
THE TABLET

About the Author:

John Hands has devoted more than ten years to evaluating scientific theories about human evolution from the origin of the universe. He graduated in chemistry from the University of London and co-authored two research studies and published one book in the social sciences. He was the founding Director of the Government s Co-operative Housing Agency and served on three Government committees. He has tutored in both physics and management studies for the Open University and was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at University College London. He has written three novels and been published in 8 countries.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0061008915
• ISBN 13: 9780061008917
• Binding: Paperback