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The author, ambassador to the Soviet Union during the Reagan administration, shares his memories of the diplomatic negotiations and personal relationship between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that led to the end of the Cold War.

The 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Iceland was the turning point of the Cold War. Initially planned as a short gathering to outline future talks, the meeting quickly turned to major international issues including SDI (Star Wars) and the possibility of eliminating all nuclear weapons. Both men were at the height of their powers and this move toward peace laid the groundwork for the most sweeping arms accord in history, adopted in 1987, and the end of the Soviet Union five years later. In one weekend the world was changed.

Written by a principal advisor to President Reagan on European affairs, this book shares with the reader an eyewitness account of the end of the Cold War and how Reagan and Gorbachev shared the same desire for peace.

Reykjav?k police inspector Erlendur, with the help of Elinborg and Sigurdur, investigates when a skeleton is found in a lake which has been drained due to an earthquake and uncovers the victim was murdered and may have been involved in Cold War espionage.