The Author: Nuclear Proliferation and the Terrorist

by Ben Russell

My brief relationship with Andy Damrell, a most impressive and cosmopolitan figure, ended with his recent, sudden and most mysterious disappearance. Andy is, to my knowledge, the original author of an incomplete manuscript, which I can but assume he intended me to complete and publish. THE AUTHOR is my attempt to carry out Andy's request, and as I now see it, his mission - an attempt to prevent a nuclear catastrophe.Andy's book CHEAP SHOT began during WWII with the Nazi invasion of Russia to bring forth a war-born character Rostok, the ultimate sociopath. Rostok later forms a dissident brotherhood of mega-powerful Russian Kremlin leaders into a force of international power mongers, finally resulting in the ultimate worldwide terror machine. Andy's Rostok and company have now imported, planted and will soon detonate nuclear devices within certain free societies.Andy bases the logic of his beliefs on a very few absolute facts. The USSR produced over 50,000 nuclear devices during the cold war. The Russian Republic now admits that there is no accounting for several hundred of these A-bombs. Secondly, prior to 9 11, it was impossible to prevent the importation and dispersal of these special lightweight, low radiation, composite nukes and today their detection and deactivation is an insurmountable obstacle. The The unlimited finances of mega-terrorists have secured a number of these A-bombs - they will be detonated within open societies.I feel that the revelation of this information will delay the first detonations, but I also know that most humans cannot accept these blunt truths. My mission is, thus, to forge a resolve within society to weather the cataclysmic effects of this impending nuclear disaster.

430 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2004