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A Road Less Travelled - A memoir of a privileged life    by Robin Knight
Price: $4.99 USD. 106710 words. Published on July 16, 2012. .

Robin Knight reported around the world for American newsmagazines and corporate publications for 40 years. He began covering international events in 1968 when he joined US News & World Report and soon after found himself in Northern Ireland as the civil rights movement began. Over the next 28 years, working for this prestigious American weekly publication, he reported from 50 countries in Europe.
Sasha Plotkin's Deceit    by Vaughn Sherman
Price: $6.95 USD. 129820 words. Published by camelpress on July 20, 2012. .

In 1969 CIA officer Chris Holbeck took part in a failed attempt to engineer the defection of Sasha Plotkin, a KGB officer who may be able to identify a Soviet mole in the CIA. Three years later Chris is set to try again, even though he now despises his Soviet counterpart. His job, his marriage, and his life are at stake as Chris embarks on the most difficult mission of his career.
Master Spy: The Life of Robert P. Hanssen    by Lawrence Schiller
Price: $4.99 USD. 100990 words. Published on July 23, 2012. .

For fifteen years, government worker Robert Hanssen passed along to the Soviets over 6,000 pages of top secret and classified information, including information on the U.S. investigation of smuggling nuclear weapons to third world countries and the entire plan for the continuity of the U.S. government if suddenly attacked. This is the story behind the man who so heinously betrayed his country.
72 Hours In Moscow    by Norbert Mercado
Price: $4.99 USD. 17390 words. Published on July 26, 2012. .

Arthur, an American journalist is madly in love with Natasha, a Russian Medical student. Will their love survive in the midst of the coup d' etat against Russian Premier Michael Gorbachev?
Jazz with Ella    by Jan DeGrass
Price: $4.50 USD. 83110 words. Published by libroslibertad on October 12, 2012. .

While on a study tour of the Soviet Union during the austere Brezhnev years, Jennifer, a Canadian student, is swept off her feet by a handsome Soviet man, Volodya. He is a discontented jazz pianist whose idol is singer Ella Fitzgerald–for him the symbol of everything mysterious and musical that can happen only in the west....
Where the West Ends    by Michael J. Totten
Price: $9.99 USD. 84600 words. Published by Belmont Estate Books  on November 8, 2012. .

Prize-winning author Michael J. Totten returns with a masterpiece of travel writing and history in this journey through thirteen nations—all but two formerly communist—just beyond the edge of the West where few casual travelers venture.
A World Torn Asunder: The Life and Triumph of Constantin C. Giurescu    by Marina Giurescu
Price: $7.99 USD. 143560 words. Published by BettieYoungsBookPublishers on November 25, 2012. .

A biography of Constantin Giurescu, Romania’s leading historian who in a war-torn Romania is confined to the notorious Sighet penitentiary. His diary was put in a glass jar, buried, then smuggled out by Dr. Paul E. Michelson—who does the FOREWORD for this book). An account from the turn of the century to the fall of Communism, the sellout of Eastern Europe and finally, the rise of modern Romania.
13 Days In October: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis    by BookCaps
Price: $2.99 USD. 10240 words. Published on December 9, 2012. .

Never has the world come as close to the catastrophic destruction that nearly came to pass in October 1962. The United States and the Soviet Union, uneasy allies in World War II but Cold War rivals after the defeat of Germany, squared off over the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. This launched 13 days of tense negotiations between the two nations, as both President John F. Kennedy an
Submarine: A Cold War Drama    by Adrian Poniatowski
Price: $0.99 USD. 3290 words. Published on January 5, 2013. .

At the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, tensions run lethally high on both sides. A misunderstanding quickly escalates into a deadly choice: to strike or be struck?
Arsalan: His American Journey    by Shahzad Rizvi
Price: $2.99 USD. 36050 words. Published on January 28, 2013. .

Arsalan, a Pakistani student in the 1960's, wants nothing more than to be an American. As he realizes his dream and climbs to the top of the US foreign policy establishment, he attracts the attention of two beautiful Soviet agents, determined to pry secrets from him by any means necessary. An FBI agent is equally determined to root out Soviet infiltration and turn the tables on the gorgeous spies.