Fallback by Peter Niesewand (1982)

Fallback
by Peter Niesewand
Publisher: William Morrow and Company, Inc.
Copyright: 1982
Book Club Edition

Two men join forces to become the most unusual and lethal espionage force ever created.

". . . the most secret secret we have. It can't get out. Not now, not for fifty years, until we're all dead and gone . . ."

The secret is the fallback position. It is known to a mere handful of men. But it affects the entire world. At the center of this stunning novel of super-power intrigue are two extraordinary men.

Professor Martin Ross is a computer genius, aging, scholarly, gentle. He is a member of the Pentagon's think tank at Princeton, has top security clearance, is fluent in Russian . . . and feels his time has passed, his life is over.

David Cane is a tough young Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) operative. He is recruited to train Martin Ross, in the ways of espionage and in the ways of death.

Together, they become an exceptional team, cunning and lethal, but also lovingly respectful of one another, like father like son.

Their plan seems foolproof, until it is jeopardized by the one contingency for which there could be no preparation. And just as their mission is about to be aborted, the DIA discloses the ultra-secret fallback. To complete their work, they must become closer than two people have ever been before.

Martin Ross and David Cane are not alone, however. Others watch them, guide them, and try to remove them.

General Lyndon Yardley is the relentless force behind the mission and is completely prepared to sacrifice Ross and Cane.

Elaine Ross is Martin's wife, also a scientist and also cleared for sensitive information, though nothing could ever have prepared her for the upheaval in her life.

Levin is the Russian double agent, so proficient in love that he is used as a stud by the KGB.

Jean Buchanan is an American spy and Levin's love and very much his equal in the exchange of sex for information.

Metkin is the Russian scientist whose brain is emptied in London but who gains his revenge among the computers of Vologda.

Fallback sets a new standard for the global thriller. The research is brilliant, particularly for its incredible medical sequences. The plotting is ingeniously intricate and excruciatingly exciting. And its characters, its people, in whatever danger, whatever failure or triumph, are real -- complex human beings who remain so even when the very foundations of normal life are threatened, are destroyed.

Condition: Used. Hardcover. Dust cover shows shelf wear and darkening from age. Pages are tanned from age. Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.

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