Glasnost — Andre Jute

On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, from a sweeping storyteller comes the eighth and concluding volume of a ten-family saga 30 years in the writing.

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“Wild but exciting. A grand job with plenty of irony.” --  New York Times

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After 75 years of lethal plotting, from the October Revolution forward, the greatest conspiracy the world has ever known is about to bear fruit. But there are competing conspiracies. Only one conspiracy can triumph. Only one conspiracy will bring peace.

Konstantin Kerensky, great-grandson of a prince who fought beside Lenin and Dzerzhinsky, is a young Moscow policeman too hot for justice, too impassioned to survive in the moral quicksands of Glasnost while the old-style KGB heaves this way and that for survival. It doesn't help that his lover Nadeshda is the daughter of the greatest Russian traitor ever, now bestirring himself in Washington, and herself a member of the New Media, an outspoken enemy of the Kremlin regime.

In Washington, Hubbell Adams, the son and grandson of exceedingly distinguished CIA operatives, is the main sponsor of the Company's prize Russian defector,  Babe Bibikov, the man who knows how they think in the Kremlin. For nearly twenty years, Bibikov has influenced American policy all the way into the Oval Office. Babe is so well integrated, he's even married to Hubbell's heiress cousin, Joanne. Now Bibikov has upped and returned to Russia. And there he is uncovering a conspiracy as devastating to the Americans as it is to the Russians, both of whose highest national security levels are involved.

Glasnost concludes the epic eight-volume historical saga of ten intertwined American and Russian families who live and die by their love of their motherlands -- and the searing passions they arouse in each other.