The Perfect Soldier
“Ralph Peters puts what Graham Greene calls ‘the human factor’ back into spy fiction.”
New York Times Book Review
Drawing on his inside knowledge of the Pentagon, the Beltway, and the Kremlin, Ralph Peters delivers his most explosive novel yet, focusing on the long-concealed Soviet incarceration of American POWs.
Deliberately maimed on a goodwill mission to the former Soviet republic, Major Christopher Ritter is headed for another land of intrigue: Washington, DC. From the Pentagon to the Senate, he’s entering a different kind of war, in which sex, money and influence are wielded like laser-bombs. At stake are a series of photographs said to depict the KGB murder of American POWs—and the success of a secret, multibillion-dollar oil deal. The perfect soldier—and the perfect pawn—Major Ritter stands on the firing line, seeking a measure of atonement in a city without shame.
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