- In 1675, a small community of renegade Puritans in Massachusetts, the Bainbridge Plantation, is wiped out in a single night.
- In 1968, the commander of a secret Soviet nuclear missile base in Siberia commits suicide.
How could these two events, separated by centuries and continents, be connected?
Finding out is the task of Benjamin Wainwright, a young scholar of Colonial American history. Benjamin's search for a long-concealed secret of momentous proportions begins at the American Heritage Foundation, a very prestigious--and very secretive--Think Tank in western Massachusetts.
This journey will take him from the pastoral campus of the Foundation, to the glamour of embassy parties in Washington, to the international luxury of Nice, and eventually to one of the most secret cities in all of Russia, the undocumented military garrison town of Uzhur-4, hidden for decades in the vastness of eastern Siberia.
Along the way he will meet Samuel Wolfe, a brilliant security analyst who may (or may not) be his only hope of survival; Natalya Orlova, a beautiful Russian diplomat with a dark family secret; Seaton Morris, head of one of the oldest and wealthiest families in America; and Anton Sikorsky, ex-Soviet thinker of the unthinkable.
Benjamin's journey of discovery will eventually lead him to a secret so shocking it will overturn everything we thought we knew about the Cold War, and perhaps all of American history.
Praise for
The Shadow War
"Allen mines the American colonial period for his debut [an] intriguing thriller that posits an audacious and original conspiracy theory ... Allen keeps the action and the ideas flowing with commendable speed."—Publisher's Weekly
“Looking for a fresh, fast thriller that sweeps from a mysterious seventeenth century opening to a thrilling twenty-first century finale? Yearning for a thoughtful novel about how we got to where we are at this moment in American history? Want both in one place? Well, your search is over, because Glen Scott Allen has delivered The Shadow War. Buy it, go home, and prepare yourself to stay up all night, because you won't want to stop reading once you start.”—William Martin, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Constitution and City of Dreams
"THE SHADOW WAR takes off like a missile launched by events of 335 years earlier … and the pacing and [Allen's] theories of political intrigue and conspiracy keep it rolling. If you enjoyed THE DA VINCI CODE or THE LOST CONSTITUTION, then you will not be able to put this one down." —Roz Shea, Bookreporter.com
“An intelligent, complex mystery, steeped in history and secrets.”—Jill Gregory, New York Times and USA Today bestselling co-author of the The Book of Names
“Concealed within cryptic ciphers, a conspiracy spanning generations entangles two countries a world apart in an ironic partnership. From America's colonial times through the Cold War and beyond, lives were extinguished to protect the secret. History buffs and code crackers alike will find The Shadow War a complex thriller that turns conventional history on its head.”—Karen Tintori, co-author of the internationally best-selling thriller The Book of Names