Mindset: The Invisible War

by Bill Fortin

January 2022. Donald Trump has just become President of the United States through constitutional succession—and the world is already on fire.
Rick Fontain, a retired intelligence operative running a covert operation from a Maryland horse farm, is pulled back into service when China, Iran, and Russia launch a coordinated series of strikes against American interests. A kidnapped scientist. Chinese ICBMs being delivered in plain sight on board two Chinese cargo ships. Weapons-grade uranium enrichment inside an Iranian mountain called Fordow. A submarine mission in the Gulf of Oman. A hijacked airliner scheme aimed at New York City. And a mole walking the halls of the White House for over a decade.
Fontain and his team have seventy-two hours to stop all of it— but when they think it's over, it's not.
MINDSET is the fourth novel in Bill Fortin’s Cold War series—a technically precise, fast-moving thriller for readers of W.E.B. Griffin, Tom Clancy, and Brad Thor.

504 pages, Kindle Edition

Expected publication May 29, 2026

About the author

Bill Fortin, a native of Baltimore, Md., retired from Bell Labs in 2001 has served in the United States Army, 3rd Armor Division, from April 1968 to April 1970. Former CEO of IBS Inc., specializing in International Marketing and Systems Engineering. Presently CEO of Cold War Publications, LLC. Currently, a member of the board of the 3rd Armored Division Veterans Association. Bill holds a master's degree in the Management Sciences from the University of Baltimore. He and his wife, Judy, reside in Westminster, Md.