“Brad Meslin is a gifted writer who has written a brilliant debut novel set in the early 1990s, with significant and unsettling echoes of today's world.  The intricately-woven, all too real tale of nuclear blackmail grips the reader with its utter authenticity and extraordinary level of tension.”

Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret.)
Supreme Allied Commander at NATO, 2009-2013
Author:  2034:  A Novel of The Next World War, 2054:  A Novel, The Restless Wave

“A fascinating, exciting and ultimately highly satisfying techno-thriller asking the grim ‘What if?’ of loose nukes slipping from the grasp of a dying Soviet Union and unleashed in the West. Meslin’s 30+ years of experience shows; he knows his stuff. This is no run-of-the-mill potboiler. The edge-of-your seat climax is cinema-ready. And it concludes with a timely warning that, while fiction, this all too real scenario could play out again, and soon, from within today’s autocratic Kremlin.”

Thom Shanker
Former Pentagon Correspondent, Deputy Washington Editor, The New York Times
Director, Project for Media and National Security, George Washington University
Co-Author "Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats"

“A gripping action novel that draws closely upon Soviet and post-Soviet history, while also reflecting Meslin’s sober assessment of today’s geopolitics and the enduring influence of Russia’s old-guard security elite.  Every U.S. citizen would be wise to read this compelling story as a reminder of how close we are to nuclear catastrophe – and of American power, innovation and the enduring ability to make the right decisions when it matters most.”

Evelyn Farkas
Executive Director, McCain Institute
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia