The Forbidden Zone (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780684854083)

The year is 1984. The place, the Soviet Union. A struggling country awaiting the cure of "perestroika." For too many Russians, this land has become the Forbidden Zone.
In the waning days of the Cold War, Victor Perov, a brilliant Soviet scientist, agrees to a joint Soviet-American astrophysics project. Victor's faith in Communism and the Party is unwavering, but his impassioned scientific alliance with Katherine Sears, an American astrophysicist, quickly becomes romantic.
When Katherine learns that Victor's twin brother, Anton, a dissident believed killed in action in Afghanistan, is actually imprisoned somewhere in the Soviet psychiatric gulag, she risks her life to inform Victor. With the KGB hot on her trail and the American Embassy in Moscow powerless, Katherine must flee into the Soviet countryside, and Victor is left to grapple with a truth that pits him against his own mother, a high-ranking Soviet minister known as the Iron Perova.
Everywhere Victor turns, he is met with icy communist silence -- and anyone willing to talk seems to be turning up dead. The further he searches, the deeper he must dig into a painful period of Mother Russia's history. His career, his family and his life at risk, Victor must learn whom to trust in this deadly game of Party politics in order to save the woman he loves and his twin brother.

Author: Michael Hetzer
ISBN-10: 0684854082
ISBN-13: 9780684854083
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 02/11/1999
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.43lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.45w x 1.21d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/1998 pg. 1553
Publishers Weekly 11/16/1998 pg. 52
Booklist 12/01/1998 pg. 653
Library Journal 01/01/1999 pg. 150
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/15/1998 pg. 54