Book excerpt: The Oligarch Conspiracy, a geopolitical thriller, is topical, creative, and realistic. A cutting-edge novel, it jumps from the front page of today’s newspapers and television news reports of Russia and Ukraine. With their usual audacity, Levine and Alyssa agree to the request of the American President to establish an extra-governmental back channel with Russia in the context of its “special military operation” in Ukraine. They journey from their home in Florida to Moscow, where they meet with Russian President Lenkov—but is the man really the president, or perhaps a body double? From Moscow they cut across time zones, flying to Doha where they network with an assemblage of oligarchs in a bold gamble to achieve success with the perilous course of action assigned to them. Along the way, they interact with oddball, intriguing and graphic characters as they scramble to execute their singular assignment. “Hints at what may come to pass…a work of fiction that could unquestionably foretell the future.”