PAKISTAN, INDIA
AND THE BOMB:
SPY VERSUS COUNTERSPY
It is the early 1970’s. Pacifist India under the direction of Indira Gandhi is on the verge of detonating its first atomic bomb. Can Pakistan stop India before the bomb explodes? What happens to the balance of power in the subcontinent if India has a nuclear weapon and Pakistan does not? These two countries have already fought three wars. Is another war, this time over the bomb, inevitable?
Unforeseen circumstances cause a Pakistani professor, an American spy and an American salesman to cross paths in New Delhi. Their lives become entangled in a way that none of the three could have anticipated.
Asaf Ali Khan, a Pakistani professor, is placed by his uncle as a newly minted spy in New Delhi. Ali’s job is to report on India’s progress in making its first atomic bomb. Is the professor up to the spy’s task?
Graham Smith, the Chief of Station (COS) for the CIA in New Delhi, is distracted by Pakistan’s concern over India’s bomb development. He must refocus on his prime reason for being there: thwarting the Soviet KGB’s growing, menacing influence in the world’s most populous democracy.
Donovan Griffin, a sales representative for The Earthmoving Corporation, an American-based company, is inadvertently drawn into this international intrigue. How can he extricate himself as India gets closer to its first nuclear explosion?
In order to make this historical Indian novel relevant, Mr. Glenn conducted research on nuclear power, nuclear weapons, the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty, the non-aligned Third World Movement and the 1947 India-Pakistan partition.
CAPITALIST WEST GERMANY
AND SOCIALIST EAST GERMANY:
A COUNTRY DIVIDED
After World War II, a divided Germany became the epicenter of the Cold War between the Western Powers and the Soviet Union. West Germany developed along the lines of a Western-inspired Capitalist democracy. East Germany, occupied by Soviet forces, developed as a totally government-controlled Socialist society.
Two countries, one language, two systems, two currencies.
East or West Germans coped depending on the political and economic situation in which they found themselves. Some, not able to stand the repressive Socialist East German government, voted with their feet to leave for the West and a better life.
It is the mid-1970’s. Russian General Yevgeny Inanovski has honed his Russian troops in East Germany for an imminent invasion of West Germany. He has developed his detailed military operational plan. He is looking for a plausible excuse to attack.
Graham Smith, the CIA’s new Chief of Station (COS) in Bonn, must give the U.S. prior warning of a possible invasion from East Germany. He suspects that many West German spies in East Germany have been compromised, doubled, by the Stasi, the East German intelligence service. He cannot determine which intelligence reports to believe. Can the new COS find a way to learn about and thwart the general’s invasion plan?
Donovan Griffin, the new West German sales manager for The Earthmoving Corporation, is surprised that Graham Smith is also in West Germany and needs his help again. Donovan was drawn into the Indian government’s attempt to build its first nuclear bomb by Graham Smith when they both were in India. Totally absorbed in his work and family, Donovan wonders with apprehension what Graham wants of him this time.
As a war orphan, Dieter Bleistift grew up in East Germany. He became totally indoctrinated in all things Socialist. As he grew older, his orphanage director assigned him to study a trade and learn a foreign language. As a graduate, Dieter came to the attention of the East German intelligence service. As Dieter had no family and no personal relationships, he agreed to take a six-month spy training program. He excelled, and the spy agency offered him an assignment in Bonn, the West German capital. He would find a job and work his cover job for about two years before he would be given spy assignments. The day finally arrives. His “Uncle Otto” assigns Dieter three already recruited West German agents to manage. Is he up to the task?
HARVESTING MEMORIES
OF INDIA: AN AMERICAN
FAMILY’S STORY
From left: Our three-year old Melanie riding on a horse in the hill station Simla: Our four-year old Matthew sitting on an I.H. farm tractor, one of a line ready to ship from our factory near Bombay.
