Fulcrum

He was a Soviet Top Gun - yet left all of the power and glory behind when he engineered the most audacious act of defection in Cold War history. On May 20, 1989, Soviet Air Force Captain Alexander M. Zuyev escaped from an air base in Soviet Georgia, piloting a MiG-29 fighter - one of the world's most advanced combat aircraft - across the Black Sea to Turkey. Under the threat of Russian air defense missiles, and with other fighters in hot pursuit, Zuyev carried out a. Real-life flight to freedom even more breathtaking than classic works of fiction like The Hunt for Red October and Fire Fox. Now, he recalls the full events of his harrowing story in ... FULCRUM. But this thrilling book not only is one man's tale of risk and courage. It also contains many stunning, newsmaking revelations, as only a former key officer of the Soviet Air Force can provide. For the first time anywhere, Zuyev tells the truth about the 1983 downing of Korean. Airlines Flight 007 by the Soviets; the real story of the American POWs taken from Vietnam to the USSR for intelligence purposes; the fate of a critically placed mole in the electronics lab that produced the MiG-29; the inside view of the ruthless massa