Red Sand - by R. Karl Largent

To be perfectly honest, the list of the author's previous books was odd - Red Wind, Red Skies, Red Rain and Red Ice. In fact the author seems to have covered all the basic elements except Fire :-)

Still, I picked up Red Sand - by R. Karl Largent - because as usual the story at the back seemed very interesting. It begins with the discovery of a young woman's dead body. Then the Russian State Head who has come for his first-ever visit to the US is assassinated as soon as he steps out of the plane - in full view of the Secret Service guys. These events are somehow related to a trainload of state-of-the-art Russian nuclear ICBMs that are being shipped to Odessa for the disarmament program. And there is a strong possibility that whatever is on that train is not exactly state-of-the-art!

Commander T.C. Bogner doesn't have too much of time at his disposal. What he has, however, is a seemingly impossible task of stopping this train before it reaches its destination and to get a passenger off it.

If you are looking for action, you will get it in this novel set in the coldest part of what was once the USSR. And though I am not able to put my finger to the exact reason, I don't think I will reach out for another book of this author!