It’s 1980. America wonders: “who shot JR?” The Empire Strikes Back dominates the box office. And in a daring raid the United States military has rescued the US hostages in Iran.

With the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and a renewed American push in Iran, the governments of Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev jockey for position on the international stage.

CIA operative Fred Poole races against the clock to arrange the pieces of a Soviet puzzle that could lead to war. US Marines and Soviet Paratroopers Advance to Contact with the enemy on battlefields across the globe, from the jungles of Central America to the deserts of the Middle East.

Can Poole and his ragtag team untangle the Soviet plans before the Cold War goes hot and boils over into a global nightmare?

Advance to Contact:1980

is the debut novel in the alternate history series Breakout: 1980s, where the history you remember takes a turn you never expected.

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