The Devil's Alternative ** 1ST EDITION **
Language: English
Published by The Viking Press, 1980
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: River and Gold Books, Etters, PA, U.S.A.River and Gold Books
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FIRST EDITION, later printing of this hardcover book. Black cloth on red paper boards with gold foil lettering on spine. Boards are rigid and warp-free. Spine is flat and square. Corners are crisp. No previous owner marks (no names, no underlining, no bookplates, etc). No remainder marks. Pages are clean, crisp and bright. DUST JACKET complete, NOT price-clipped [$12.95]. Shows light rub on corners, very faint shelf wear, a small closed tear on rear jacket and an even tinier closed tear on rear jacket flap . Light tanning to jacket. Overall bright, clean, glossy, attractive. Will be protected with an archival book jacket cover. Photos coming! In the meantime, contact us now to request pictures of the ACTUAL book you will receive. All of our books are in-stock and ready to be shipped immediately. Synopsis of The Devil’s Alternative In 1982, a chain of failures at a Soviet fungicide plant poisons the USSR’s wheat crop, creating a looming famine that threatens national collapse. Hardliners in the Politburo push for a desperate solution: invade Western Europe and seize food by force, insisting the West will not risk nuclear retaliation. Chairman Maxim Rudin, secretly dying of cancer, knows this plan will ignite World War III, but he is running out of time to stop them. Meanwhile, Ukrainian nationalists — including Miroslav Kaminsky, Lev Mishkin, and David Lazareff — attempt to strike at the Soviet regime through assassination and hijacking, escalating tensions and undermining Rudin’s fragile control. Their actions intersect with Western intelligence when British agent Adam Munro receives inside information from his former lover Valentina, who works in the Kremlin and reveals the Politburo’s war plans. As the Soviets negotiate with the U.S. for emergency grain, a hijacked supertanker and nationalist uprisings create a second crisis: any concession to one threat worsens the other. World leaders face an impossible dilemma — avert famine, prevent war, and contain terrorism — with every option leading to catastrophic consequences. This convergence of crises embodies the novel’s title: there is no good choice, only the devil’s alternative. Forsyth’s trademark procedural detail, geopolitical realism, and multi‑layered plotting drive the story from Politburo intrigue to commando operations, creating a tense, meticulously researched thriller about brinkmanship, nationalism, and the fragility of global stability. …
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- Title
- The Devil's Alternative ** 1ST EDITION **
- Author
- Forsyth, Frederick
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Publication year
- 1980
- Condition
- As new
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0670270814
- ISBN 13
- 9780670270811
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 5th or later Printing
- Item weight
- 548.847 grams
- Dimensions
- 50.8 centimeters width by 50.8 centimeters height by 50.8 centimeters depth
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