Winter Palace - A Cold War Espionage Technothriller

CRITICAL ACCLAIM REVIEWS:“From start to finish, there’s action and suspense on every page. Jones has scored a “can’t miss” hit with this provocative thriller.”– Cincinnati Post“Jones has come up with a heart-stopping international thriller, from the “What If” genre...one very scary story.”– Los Angeles Times“Written like a passel of plots were put into a pot, boiled and spiced into a tasty stew...Jones is a strong storyteller and it is hard to put the book down.”– Richmond Times-Dispatch“This book shifts you to the edge of your seat—and keeps you there.”– Toronto Star“There’s action and suspense and every page...A ‘can’t miss hit!’”– Milwaukee Journal"Hardcore thriller fans...will find all the diversion they need in the non-stop action, relentless tension and detailed look at the inner workings of the Kremlin.”- BooklistIt is the final decade of the 20th Century, the dawn of a new era of repression and political murder in the U.S.S.R.. But the Soviet leadership has made a startling pronouncement: Russia’s Jews—two million men, women, and children—will be permitted to leave the country...immediately! And immigrate to the western democracy countries that shall have them.However the expulsion of the Russian Jews is merely a smokescreen masking a hideous Soviet conspiracy to destabilize the west from within. And CIA agent Sam Cole has in his position the terrible secret of Operation Winter Palace and its true nature—a nightmare of genocidal horror unseen since the dark days of Nazi Germany. And only he can prevent the unthinkable—if he can get out of the Soviet Union alive.But it may already be too late...a secondary plot to engulf the Middle East in a bathe of nuclear fire has been put into motion by a rogue terror cell that could bring the entire world toward Armageddon.From the bestselling author ofBARBAROSSA REDcomes a frighteningly plausible tale of the day after tomorrow. A monumental masterwork of suspense and intrigue that races from the heart of the Soviet empire to the teeming hellholes of Ankara and Damasc