The zero option

For President Reagan's administration, the Cold War is going badly. Support in Europe for the Soviet Union is on the rise, while acceptance of the new US intermediate range nuclear missiles is waning. Roy Garret, a bright young NSA analyst has a plan. It goes into effect on the morning of 1 September 1983 when Korean Air Lines commercial passenger flight 007 takes off from Anchorage, Alaska, heading for Seoul. The airliner rendezvous with a US spy plane over the Bearing Sea, overflies a top secret Soviet submarine base and is then shot down off Sakhalin Island. Now thirty years later, the missing radar tape showing what happened to KAL 007 falls into the wrong hands...