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It really is 1999 and Russia is in the advantage of total implosion. Sociable and moral purchase provides collapsed and what little semblance of control there is, is being imposed by mafia-like legal gangs. While open public opinion in the West is largely indifferent, the politics analysts are much less sanguine – Russian meltdown can make the disintegration of the Balkans look like the collapse of the cup-cake. From the chaos, however, a single charismatic voice is usually starting to be noticed – that of Igor Komarov, a visionary about Icon patriot who promises he can restore Russia’s greatness and bring prosperity towards the masses. He even woos Western politics leaders with a rather more realistic evaluation of the way forwards for Russia. Komarov is defined to win the next election when a document is smuggled in to the English Embassy in Moscow. It’s called The Black Manifesto and it appears to show Komarov’s secret agenda – his politics blueprint is actually Mein Kampf, the rebirth of Russia will be as a New Third Reich with Komarov as Fuhrer. But can the record end up being authenticated? And what can the Traditional western Alliance’s most secret Trilateral Commission perform about it if it’s? They need to discover another voice the public will pay attention to and obey instead of Komarov – an icon they are able to cleave to and trust. Once, not that long ago, he was called the Tsar.

And so develops a thrilling and increasingly frightening adventure – Jason Monk, ex-CIA, who used to perform agents in to the Soviet Union, is recruited and slips back into Russia, in to the desperate Moscow world of poverty, luxury, gangsters and prostitutes and underneath it all, the titanic power battle to ensure the outcome from the forthcoming elections.