NEW YORK, March 20, 2009 — In 1976, Capt. Mikhail Makarov leads the crew of a Soviet TU-95 Bear D airplane in their defection from the USSR, his decision to leave his homeland decades in the making.
“BEAR: Flight to Liberty” (published by iUniverse) by Miguel Vargas-Caba tells the crew’s thrilling story. Led by Capt. Makarov, who must convince his crew to leave with him, the defectors develop a plan to avoid the potentially fatal attention of innumerable Soviet military officers and KGB stooges, by coinciding their escape during a week of Soviet naval and aircraft maneuvers over the Northern Atlantic. After subverting command and setting several harrowing diversions, the crew, now aboard the Red 67 – a flying giant low on fuel, aims for the closest airbase in Canada where the defectors hope to crash-land safely.
This intense, action-packed novel focuses on the age-old battle of freedom as Makarov and crew carry out their daring naval plot and final airborne escape. Daring, determination, and the personal decisions that Makarov and his comrades must make during the troubling Cold War era tell a compelling personal, as well as action, tale.
About the Author
Born in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, the youngest of 17 children, Miguel Vargas-Caba learned to love literature and acquire the skill of languages. Today, he knows how to read Latin and Greek, speaks fluently in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian, and not so fluently in German, Swedish, and several more languages. In 1974 he migrated to New York City where he acquired his higher education in the field of Electromechanical Technology. Today he’s employed in the Information Technology field in Westchester County, New York. Vargas-Caba resides with his family in the Bronx. “BEAR: Flight to Liberty” is his first book. His second, under development, is a historical novel on the subject of the Cold War, this time aboard a Golf-II submarine of the Soviet Navy, and is based on real events.
“BEAR: Flight to Liberty”
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