Beware the Jabberwock — Chester D. Campbell

As the Cold War struggles to a close and the Soviet Union disintegrates, rogue elements on both sides of the Iron Curtain join in a deadly plot to maintain their hold on power, codenamed Operation Jabberwock. Telephone intercepts trigger a CIA investigation, but doubters among the higher-ups task a veteran clandestine officer with a drinking problem to track down Jabberwock with only an outsider for help. Cameron Quinn recruits an old buddy, ex-FBI Agent Burke Hill, whose tarnished career had ended years before. Hill soon finds himself alone in the chase, with enough evidence to convince himself of the plot's potential danger, but shut out by an obsessive bureaucrat. He links up with Quinn's daughter in a race against time to find the shocking answer, a plot to assassinate the American and Russian presidents. Attempting to thwart it could cost both his life and that of the woman he has grown to love.