TY  - BOOK
AU  - Forsyth, Frederick.
TI  - Devil's alternative, The. 
SN  - 076783004955
PY  - 1985///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - Bantam Books, 
KW  - Spy stories
KW  - Fiction
KW  - English
KW  - Political fiction
KW  - Soviet Union – Foreign relations
KW  -  Fiction
KW  - Political Fiction
N2  - As the Russian people face starvation, the Politburo is faced with a hard choice: negotiate with America for food, go to war for national survival, or deal with an uprising in the motherland. Through an informant, British Agent Adam Munro learns that the situation is growing dangerously tense, with powerful forces in the USSR maneuvering for supremacy.
But even as East and West conduct delicate talks, events spiral out of control and threaten to undo every step taken. The world’s largest oil tanker is hijacked by terrorists, and a Ukrainian “freedom fighter” is rescued in a bloody catastrophe on the Black Sea.
From Moscow to Washington, the stakes grow ever more perilous as the mad actions of a few threaten to engulf the entire world in nuclear war—unless Munro can stop them
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