November 1983. NATO is conducting Able Archer 83, a military exercise unfolding against one of the most tense periods of the Cold War.
In Moscow, the exercise is being watched with growing concern. Every American move is observed, interpreted, and reported.
Then one American officer is asked a question. In history, he chose not to change the readiness of his forces.
In this novel, he chooses differently.
From that moment on, no one wants war. Yet every decision made for protection gives the other side one more reason for suspicion — until waiting begins to seem more dangerous than acting.
An alternate-history novel grounded in real events and declassified records.
