November 22nd 1963 and Walter Cronkite tells a stuned nation that John F. Kennedy is DOA at Parkland Memorial, the whole world mourning the passing of a 20th century icon.
Nearly thirty years on and John Capriotti is sent to Moscow to cover the diplomatic wrangling as the West moves inexorably towards Desert Storm and the Gulf War. Bored and frustrated by the international posturing and plagued by demons from his own past, Capriotti stumbles across the story of the century – only to realise it could cost him his life.
A beautiful young translator, her dead father, a jealous Mafia boss and a long lost Stasi file all lead Capriotti to think the unthinkable: – is Kennedy alive and living in Moscow? Pursued by the OMON, the Iraqis and the CIA, Capriotti must find the one man who knows the truth before his own government buries him and the secret forever.