The Russian Who Saved the World: A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Steven E Maffeo

Black Saturday, October 27, 1962, is the most dangerous day of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It is a day of gut-wrenching ups and downs and deadly events that brings the world within a hair's breadth of nuclear apocalypse. Not far from Cuba, on board Soviet Projekt-641 submarine B-59, the captain is overwhelmed by stress, fatigue, and CO2 poisoning-and decides to fire a nuclear-armed torpedo at the American aircraft carrier USS Randolph. This attack will trigger a full thermonuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Only one man, a passenger on board the submarine, has a slim chance to turn the situation around-and save the world. The Russian Who Saved the World is an undersea thriller dramatically inspired by true historical events. Operations Anadyr and Kama were the USSR's large-scale attempt to establish a significant military presence in Cuba-including a considerable number of bombers and missiles armed with nuclear weapons. The world remembers this as the amazing "eyeball-to-eyeball" confrontation between President John F. Kennedy of the USA and Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev of the USSR. Operation Kama included the establishment of a large Soviet Navy presence at Mariel Bay, and Kama's opening phase was the sending of four submarines-Russian diesel-electric boats called the FOXTROT class by NATO-to prepare for the main force's arrival. Unknown to the United States-and it remained unknown for almost forty years-each Soviet submarine had unusually been equipped with a torpedo having a nuclear warhead. And, incredibly, each boat's commander had the independent authority to fire this torpedo under certain circumstances without further permission needed from Moscow. One captain breaks down under terrible pressure and decides to shoot. But that captain is transporting another captain to Cuba as a passenger, and that officer argues for a different decision. One Russian almost killed us all. Another Russian saved us. This is a frightening story-solidly based on fact.

• | Author: Steven E Maffeo
• | Publisher: Focsle Llp
• | Publication Date: November 30, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 280 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0960039139
• | ISBN-13: 9780960039135