Posted on November 18, 2009 by Nidha N

Glenn Meade is an Irish novelist, and an extremely good one. Snow Wolf is one of his bestsellers and deals with a covert attempt to assassinate on Joseph Stalin, the dictator of the USSR in 1953. The precise details or real reason for Stalin’s death remain undisclosed till date and the matter is still one of conjecture, raising the possibility of this novel being closer to fact than fiction.

The plot starts with President Dwight D. Eisenhower receiving reports of alarming decline in Joseph Stalin’s mental faculties, and that he is all set to start another horrifying purge. The completion of the Russian thermonuclear bomb adding to the possibility of another world war compounds the worry. Eisenhower sanctions Operation Snow Wolf.

Two CIA agents, posing as husband and wife travel across the frozen barren land of Siberia from Alaska to assassinate Stalin. However, as chance would have it, the KGB gets wind of the plan the moment they land on Russian soil. The KGB deploys an expert manhunter to find out the CIA agents and eliminate them. As if the CIA agents did not have enough worry on their plate, they come face to face with another problem they never expected.

A thriller par excellence.