The eighth day - Alfred Coppel

Set in the post-Boris Yeltsin era, The Eighth Day describes in terrifying detail an ultra-nationalist plot to take over Russia . . ..

Hidden underwater in the northern Hudson Bay in Canada, a nuclear missile lies ready for launching over Washington D.C. Such an explosion would obliterate all electronic communications in the U.S., and plotters in the Russian government hope it will enable them to implement their coup and take control of the country before the U.S. knows what's happened. In other words, it's an event that promises to create an apocalyptic 'eighth day'.

Full of suspense and written with chilling realism The Eighth Day moves to a nail-biting climax.