A State of Fear is a complex and visually stimulating suspense /thriller set against the stunning tableau of the San Francisco Bay area. It is an account of enigmatic, lethally-conflicted political agendas, all set in motion when a young U.C. Berkeley professor confronts an elderly but spectral Russian statesman who has just become the new consul general in San Francisco. Unable to reconcile the unexplained death of his fiancee in a Moscow river, he is driven by an inexorable obsession that quickly ostracizes him from university colleagues and friends, and puts him on a collision course with political forces he is ill-prepared to contend with. His life spirals into an unimaginable nightmare, entangling him in a baleful yet restorative romantic relationship with a mysteriously elusive young woman who distrusts him as much as he distrusts her.
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