'The Minot Mission': Nuclear Espionage on a Grand Scale

PICKERING, Ontario, May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- "The Minot Mission" by Stephen Knight: In rural northern North Dakota, seventy miles south of the Canadian border, sits one of the largest nuclear missile sites in the United States-Minot Air Force Base. Home to six Strategic Air Command missile squadrons, Minot houses 300 ready-to-launch missiles with a combined payload of well over 1,000 nuclear warheads. What would happen if the "wrong" people say the Soviets infiltrated this nuclear missile "gold mine" with the sole purpose of causing a catastrophic nuclear "accident"? A "Kaaabooom!" moment that forces the hand of a new U.S. Administration into changing their policy on the use of weapons of mass destruction, thus alleviating the Soviets' own tenuous position in the Cold War? Explosive material distilled with care and packaged within "The Minot Mission," the fast-paced, action-packed international thriller and ultimate espionage adventure.

Taking place over a 13-month period during President Reagan's first term, "The Minot Mission" (published by Trafford Publishing) rolls the reader out of the warmth of his favorite reading chair into a frigid North Dakota night to accompany three factory workers - the Fuller brothers and Wolford Byford - who have spent their afternoon and night drinking in a local motel bar in Minot. After their long bingeing session, these locals make their way home only to cast their collective eyes on a strange object moving erratically in the expansive night sky near the local Air Force base. After delivering his brotherly companions to their home's doorstep, Byford decides to get a closer look at the flying saucer-like object. What he discovers is two lone parachutes dropping out of the star-filled sky. Switch back one year and change location - a meeting room within the walls of the Kremlin where two Americans, the charismatic Gerry Williams and the placid Peter Shelby, have been apprehended upon their arrival in Moscow and forcibly recruited into the Soviet military. Briefed by General Vladimir Tsoff and Major Alexei Khotov, the duo assimilates details of a plan to cause a nuclear "accident" at Minot Air Force Base. It's a rollercoaster ride that follows our double-crossing "patriots" to Cuba, Canada, the U.S., Singapore and Australia. Destined to be a Cold War thriller classic, "The Minot Mission" will keep you on the edge of your favorite reading chair!

"I have to say that when I first read the description for this book I thought 'not another book on espionage and the Soviet Union,' but I have to say that author Stephen Knight took a theme and completely turned it on its ear. From the beginning of the storyline, you just know that the conflict will grow and that extreme measures will be taken to make sure that these men do not succeed.

"The plotting is excellent and there are quite a few twists and turns that, frankly, I never saw coming (and this to me makes this book a thriller in the true way!) This book did actually thrill me at times, made me feel disgusted at the characters at times and brought out a lot of emotion.

"I recommend this one for all lovers of Robert Ludlum - you have just discovered a new author." - Amazon.com review

About the Author

British-born and educated, Stephen Knight took a post-college career path into the software development industry. In the early 1970s, Knight traded in his Union Jack allegiance for the Canadian Maple Leaf, ushering in a long and successful career in the computer industry that included military contracts in the aerospace industry. Married with three children, he lives near Toronto. "The Minot Mission" is his first novel.

Trafford Publishing is the premier book publisher for emerging, self-published authors. For more information, please visit http://www.trafford.com.

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