The kidnapping of a former president of the United States by the KGB leads to a desperate race--between financial whiz and KGB agent Miklos Androssy and Alexander Kidd, head of America's leading satellite network--for control of an orbiting super satellite
Russell Rhodes was born on October 27, 1931 in Derby, Connecticut. He graduated from Loomis School and Yale University and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. After business school, Mr. Rhodes joined Procter and Gamble in Cincinnati in its marketing department before embarking on a career in the advertising agency world. He spent a decade in England and France with the Norman, Craig & Kummel agency and Ogilvy & Mather. He subsequently moved to New York with Ogilvy & Mather where he held senior positions on such accounts as American Express, Avon and Cotton Inc. During this period he found time to write five novels of the spy/thriller genre, among which were "The Herod Conspiracy" and "The Styx Complex." He died of natural causes in December 2010 in New York City.