
Moscow correspondent Colin Burke learns that the Soviet leader has had a stroke, a bit of information that may garner him a Pulitzer Prize if he can escape becoming a pawn in the East-West struggle.

American journalist Colin Burke may have been in Moscow long enough to lose his naivet, but he hasn't lost his reporter's ambition for that One Big Story. That ambition could prove fatal when a source presents Burke with the story of a lifetime. It blinds him to the fact that...

A master, authentic, state-of-the-world thriller written by a former Newsweek Moscow correspondent, here is the suspenseful story of a desperate American reporter racing along the razor's edge between journalist and spy. A first-rate writer. . . .Every word he writes carries...