A sophisticated orbiting space battle station. The Russians have it The U.S. wants it. And trapped in a maze of intrigue and deceptior one woman becomes a pawn in a dangerous game of intenational cat and mouse. The White House wants Natasha Smirnova, the genius behind WAR*MOON, on their side. And they're using one of their most brilliant nuclear engineers to get her. But Natasha has been ordered to use every weapon she possesses as a scientist and as a woman to make sure Chris Carmichael defects to Russia. While the tentacles of power and corruption reach from the neon-lit corridors of the Pentagon to the very heart of the Kremlin, a man and a woman face the ultimate test of love and loyalty. And while the core of the Soviet power structure begins to crumble, while friends become more dangerous than enemies, murder and manipulation become the only rules in a desperate game where both sides are playing for keeps.
There's a long list of why this was awful, but I'm not spending any more time on this. If you like Tom Clancy, James Rollins or any author along those lines, stay as far away from this book as possible.
This book was published in 1987, ISBN 0-373-97031-5, printed in Canada by Worldwide Library and named War*Moon. It involves the war for space supremacy but at a very human interest (love) connection and a depiction of "Russian" politics and attitudes from an American view.