From the Bookshelf of Around the World in 80 Books…

[close] When a series of grisly murders in Warsaw is linked to the disappearance of a Russian physicist with a portable atomic bomb, an FBI agent is sent to help the investigation, and the race is on to find the bomb before it ends up in the wrong hands. Set in 1992, this thriller captures the time when the Berlin Wall fell, the Soviet Union disintegrated, and Solidarity came to power.