A Murder of Crows: A Thriller - Hardcover

Shepard, Steve

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 089141598X ISBN 13: 9780891415985

Publisher: Presidio Pr, 1996

Synopsis

A cabal of senior Russian officers, led by the charismatic and brilliant general Uri Saratov, engineer a plot designed to put the Red Army back in control of the Kremlin, as well as one guaranteeing that the Russians will never again have to worry about a military face-off with the United States.
Saratov and his comrades plan to lull the U.S. into nuclear arms reductions so severe that, in time, America will not be able to effectively respond to a Russian nuclear threat. Simultaneously, knowing U.S. customs agents are severely short-staffed, they plan to smuggle more than sixty thermonuclear weapons, disguised as industrial boilers in ordinary shipping crates, into the American heartland.
Dr. George Duval, a country physician fresh out of med school, traveling on a desolate stretch of Nebraska highway, witnesses a fatal truck accident and gets a good look at the victims and their mysterious cargo. When Duval returns to the scene with the local sheriff, there is no longer any sign of an accident, and he soon becomes convinced he has stumbled on to a "broken-arrow" nuclear incident the Feds want covered up. International tensions over recent Russian activity build as Duval, believing the worst about his own government, recruits the help of his friend, a local investigative reporter, to put the deadly puzzle together before it's too late.

About this title

Synopsis:

A country physician fresh out of med school witnesses a fatal truck accident and gets a good look at the victims and their mysterious cargo, but when he later returns with help there isn't any sign of an accident, and he becomes involved in a a nuclear incident the Feds want covered up.

About this edition

• Publisher: Presidio Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 089141598X
• ISBN 13: 9780891415985
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 253