At the time of Stalin"s death, there were those who wondered if his demise may have resulted from foul play rather than a cerebral hemorrhage. Irish journalist Glenn Meade takes that notion as the premise for this absorbing political thriller. In Snow Wolf, the plot to dispose of the dictator originates with President Eisenhower and is entrusted to the CIA. With Stalin scrambling to see that Russia perfects the hydrogen bomb before the United States and rumored to be considering a plan to resume the Holocaust, the American side comes to believe "the future course of the whole damned world" is at stake. The book provides as much suspense as any recent thriller and characters who are more complex and three-dimensional than in most.