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Fulcrum: A Top Gun Pilot's Escape from the Soviet Empire
Fulcrum A Top Gun Pilot's Escape from the Soviet Empire Author:Alexander Zuyev, Malcolm McConnell He was a Soviet Top Gun -- yet left all of the power and glory behind when he engineered the most audacious act of defection in Cold War history. On May 20, 1989, Soviet Air Force Captain Alexander Zuyev escaped from an air base in Soviet Georgia. Under the threat of Russian air defense missiles, and with other fighters in hot pursuit, Zuyev car... more »ried out a real-life flight to freedom even more breathtaking then classic works of fiction like The Hunt for Red October and Fire Fox.« less