Lynn Boughey

Lynn Boughey's first book, Mission to Chara, is about a U.S. mission to extract a deep-cover spy from inside Russia. The plot and style are reminiscent of Dale Brown ("Flight of the Old Dog") and Tom Clancy ("Cardinal of the Kremlin" and "Hunt for Red October"). It's obvious that Boughey did his homework. He told us that he's personally visited most of the locations described in the story, and it shows. The descriptions in the book are vivid, and photographs in the book show many of the places depicted in the story. There's even a postscript where the author explains a couple of intentional departures from fact. Mission to Chara mixes traditional military and spy novel writing with an exploration of the post-cold war relationship between the United States and Russia. The fast-paced plot takes us from Moscow to the small town of Chara, from the cockpit of an SR-71 Blackbird flying at Mach 3+ to airfields in North America, Japan, China, and Russia. We visit the Pentagon, NORAD, and the Kremlin.