The Last Mayday Author:Keith Wheeler Not since "Fail Safe" and "Seven Days In May" has a novel delivered such smashing suspense! — The hot-line between the White House and the Kremlin was crackling with threats and counterthreats. The United States and Russia were on the brink of an awesome war. — Fleeing across the frozen face of Russia was a giant American and his human cargo - the... more » ex-premier of the Soviet Union and a beautiful, haunted woman.
Behind them raced the Secret Police. Ahead of them lay a rendezvous with a U.S. nuclear sub in destroyer-filled Russian waters.
If they were discovered it would cause an international calamity more disastrous than the Pueblo incident. And there was no chance that they wouldn't be discovered...« less