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,...