The Zero Option
Rollins, David and Rollins, David A.

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The Cold War is going badly for President Reagan's administration. Support in Europe for the Soviet Union is on the rise while acceptance of the new US intermediate range nuclear missiles is waning. Enter Roy Garret, a bright young NSA analyst with a plan. It goes into effect on the morning of 1 September 1983 when Korean Air Lines flight 007 takes off from Anchorage, Alaska, heading for Seoul. The airliner rendezvous with a US spy plane over the Bearing Sea, overflies a top secret Soviet submarine base and is then shot down off Sakhalin Island... Or is it? No wreckage or bodies are recovered. And a radar tape that shows what really happened to KAL 007 has gone missing.

On board the downed airliner: 269 souls including one US Congressman with too many secrets. Thirty years later, the missing radar tape falls into the hands of the daughter of a KAL 007 passenger and the son of the US spy plane commander. Determined to keep the facts hidden after all these years is New Mexico Governor Roy Garret, who is now contesting the US presidency.

What follows is a desperate chase across Russia to bury the truth once and for all beneath the snows of Siberia. Can two young idealists outwit the forces ranged against them, or will Uncle Sam and the Russian Bear sweep history under the carpet again?

Author Information

After leaving school, David Rollins completed a journalism cadetship. Then one day, he woke up to find himself in advertising, and ultimately ended up with his own ad agency. David lives in Sydney and, in between boxing and aerobatic flying, is also the author of Rogue Element, Sword of Allah and, featuring Vin Cooper, The Death Trust, A Knife Edge and Hard Rain.

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