The C-Factor

The Soviet Union of the late 1970's worried that their military superiority is in jeopardy, steals the formula for solid rocket fuel being used by the United States, but end up with a 'Pandora's box' capable of bringing them to their knees.George Taylor, doctor, cancer researcher and college professor leads a team of doctors and nuclear engineers on a United Nations World Health Organization Inspection to the Ukrainian State of the Soviet Union. The team's mission is to access the effects of nuclear power usage on the workers, families and local communities surrounding several nuclear energy facilities. During the course of the inspection mission he will discover the answer to a mystery that began years earlier in Greenland. This discovery if released, will place the entire Soviet social and political system at risk. George will find his loyalties challenged between the goals of the United Nations Inspection Mission and those of his secret involvement with the President's National Security Agency. The height of the 'cold war' is the setting for this mystery, adventure and love story. A time when the world's two super powers seemed intent on the assured mutual destruction of each other and their actions pushed the probability closer each day.

If there is one book about the 1980's that presents what was, or what could have been, then this is that book. The plot contains a medical mystery, geopolitical intrigue, explosive action and a love story. The story line moves from New York, to the Ukraine, Moscow and Berlin. From the Presidents inner circle to the NSA, it's a book you don't want to miss reading.