From international bestselling author Dennis Jones comes a prolific cold war story of Soviet civil war.

When General Secretary Konstantin Chernenko dies suddenly, the Western democracies welcome the rise of a more liberal and tolerant leader, General Secretary Vasily Romanenko. But all is not well in the Kremlin where the goals of the new regime clash with those of ruthless Dmitri Smilga, chief of the KGB.

When a take-over bid by the power-hungry Smilga plunges the Soviet Union into a bloody civil war, the world watches in terror. And, desperate for control, the KGB chief will stop at nothing to obtain it, not even nuclear mass murder!