THE FOURTH PROTOCOL

Book • 1984
The Fourth Protocol is set in 1986, during the heights of the Cold War. The story revolves around a Soviet plan to influence the British Labour Party by installing a hard-left candidate as Prime Minister.

The plot involves Valeri Petrofsky, a Soviet spy, who arrives in the UK to assemble a nuclear bomb using clandestine means, violating the fictional 'Fourth Protocol' of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

MI5 officer John Preston, along with SIS chief Sir Nigel Irvine, works to uncover and thwart this operation, which involves complex espionage and counter-intelligence maneuvers.

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