O'Clery Conor. Moscow, December 25, 1991. The Last Day of the Soviet Union

New York: Public Affairs. 2011. - 436 cThe author lived and worked in Russia during the final years of the Soviet Union as Moscow correspondent for the "Irish Times." Conor O'Clery has written a unique and truly suspenseful thriller of the day the Soviet Union died. The internal power plays, the shifting alliances, the betrayals, the mysterious three colonels carrying the briefcase with the nuclear codes, and the jockeying to exploit the future are worthy of John Le Carre or Alan Furst. The Cold War's last act was a magnificent dark drama played out in the shadows of the Kremlin.