The Odds are Even (Probability Sequence S.) - Softcover

Gdala, Amy

9780954291310: The Odds are Even (Probability Sequence S.)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 095429131X ISBN 13: 9780954291310

Publisher: Superscript, 2002

A historical novel centred around the chance meeting between Oleg Penkovsky, the Spy who Saved the World, and a teenage peacenik. The details are based entirely on recorded news broadcasts and diaries and memoirs of all the key players: including the Kennedy Brothers, the key Secret Service personnel and the top Kremlin decision makers.
This documentation of the secret machinations and covert deals behind the Cold War and its 1962 climax was written before access to some of the restricted material was made available under the thirty year rule. Recent dissemination of this material, together with the carefully manicured versions of the White House Tapes (recorded on John Kennedy's orders), and the proceedings of the anniversary conference of key participants held in Havana in October 2002, does nothing at all to discredit Gdala's tightly researched thesis.
Everyone should be aware of what was going on at the most dangerous moment in human history - and of how little has changed.

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From the Publisher:

This is the first volume in THE PROBABILITY SEQUENCE of which the celebrated Pascal's Wager is the latest. In this one the chance meeting is between Jay, one of two thousand protestors who tried to storm the U.S. London embassy during the Cuba Missile Crisis, and Oleg Penkovsky, the spy who saved the world. This dramatisation of the secret machinations and covert deals behind the Cold War and its 1962 climax was written before access to some of the restricted material was made more widely available under the thirty year rule. Recent dissemination of this material, together with the carefully manicured versions of the White House Tapes ( recorded on John Kennedy's orders), and the proceedings of the anniversary conference of key participants held in Havana in October 2002, does nothing at all to discredit Gdala's tightly researched thesis. Everyone should be aware of what was going on at the most dangerous moment of human history - and of how little has changed!

About the Author:

Dr Amy Gdala is the professional name used by a veteran countersurveillance activist and commonwealth academic who disappeared mysteriously in the summer of 2005 a few weeks after delivering the final volume of the quartet known as The Probability Sequence of which this is the first volume

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