Ringer

“By far the most enjoyable thriller of the season.” -- Chicago Tribune.One man can stop the countdown to a new world war.The Soviet Union has based its new bombers, the Blackjacks, in Cuba. With their stealth technology and cruise missiles with the capacity to destroy a third of American cities, the American president has demanded their immediate removal. But the Soviets decide to risk a replay of the Cuban Missile Crisis. American intelligence agencies launch a clandestine operation to rid Cuba of the Blackjacks.William Maurice, whose CIA career was destroyed by the Bay of Pigs, is head of a clandestine operation to recruit a Cuban American in Miami for a Fidel Castro impersonation. This provokes the Russians to set loose KGB agents in Havana and Miami to root out the plot and murder Maurice. A Cuban Bomber Crisis becomes the worst case scenario if Maurice fails to switch the imposter out before the clock ticks down to zero."If Frederick Forsyth and Tom Clancy had written Our Man in Havana, they couldn't have done a better job than James Stewart Thayer has done with Ringer." -- San Diego Union.