The Dragon: Alfred Coppel

A strange Mongol rider drags his Chinese captive across a Central Asian plain. A Russian attaché is shot dead at Dover. The American President plans his visit to Moscow. A Soviet missile base is unaccountably realigned to a new target...A series of apparently unconnected incidents on three continents falls into a pattern that will thrust the world into global conflict. Two code names spell out the answers in the grim Doomsday puzzle; BOYAR - Renegade Kremlin warlord and grand master of the scientific theory of holocaust...DRAGON - China's secrecy-shrouded project hidden in the Turfan depression, the ultimate death-dealer in the arsenal of Armageddon. Cover art by Alun Hood.