State of Terror follows Ellen Adams, a novice Secretary of State, who has joined the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage. A series of terrorist attacks throws the global order into disarray and the secretary is tasked with assembling a team to unravel the deadly conspiracy, a scheme carefully designed to take advantage of an American government dangerously out...

In 1913, a Russian ballet incited a riot in Paris at the new Th�e�atre de Champs-Elys�ees. "Only a Russian could do that," says Aleksandr Ivanovich. "Only a Russian could make the whole world go mad." A century later, in November 2013, thousands of Ukrainian citizens gathered at Independence Square in Kyiv to protest then-President Yanukovych's failure to sign a referendum with the European Union, opting instead to forge a closer alliance with...

East of California -- Taking the Stage -- The Global Chessboard -- The Battle is Joined -- Summer of Freedom -- Raising the Stakes -- The Maelstrom -- Toil and Trouble -- Morning in America, Twilight in the Cold War? -- Waiting for Gorbachev -- Making History in Geneva, and Finding Trouble in Tehran -- The Crucible -- Comeback -- Endgame. "An in-depth and masterful account of how Ronald Reagan's foreign policy "team of rivals" ended the Cold War...