Forms of Madness begins in 1985. Mutual distrust between The United States and the Soviet Union has perpetuated an arms race that the U.S. is winning, but at the expense of socially and economically destabilizing a nuclear superpower.
After introducing the main characters and their relationships, the story
retreats to the beginning of 1980 to provide the foundation for the main
theme. Agreeing to a proposal put forth by a CIA operative, an
investigative journalist named Jordan Bauer gains legal entry to the Soviet Union. Jordan's alleged project is to illuminate for the western world the progress achieved by the great Soviet social experiment. But this is Jordan's secondary mission. His main objective is to make contact with a conscience-stricken staff member at a Soviet bioweapons research center, north of Moscow. Events surrounding his Soviet adventure lead Jordan to Tallinn in the Estonian SSR. Here, an emotional connection is established in Jordan that alters his life and forces him to be an unwitting player in an international conspiracy.
The story reenters 1985 and finds Jordan to be an unwitting pawn in an
international conspiracy. The emotional hook implanted five years earlier is considered by the conspirators to be sufficiently secure to begin using to direct Jordan to play the role he has been assigned. Guided by subtle clues provided for him, Jordan puts most of the pieces together and concludes that indeed something of global significance is going on that presents a grave danger to the public. At the proper moment he is swept up by the conspirators and the role he had been playing is revealed to him.
Ultimately, Jordan is driven to choose one of two paths, to attempt to
expose the conspiracy—and most certainly fail—or simply to walk away. But the hook set in Tallinn is too deep, and Jordan knows that to walk away could destroy him.
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