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By Mark Flanagan, About.com Guide to Contemporary Literature since 2003

Robert Ludlum's The Arctic Event by James H. Cobb

Sunday March 2, 2008

On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, researchers discover the wreckage of a Soviet strategic bomber that disappeared with its crew more than fifty years ago while carrying two metric tons of weaponized anthrax. Desperate to prevent a political and diplomatic firestorm, the U.S. president dispatches a Covert-One team led by Lieutenant Colonel Jon Smith to the crash site. As for the Russians, they are lying: a second, even deadlier secret rests within the hulk of the lost bomber, a secret the Russians are willing to kill to protect...

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