You know that moment when you’re filled with relief after watching a scary movie—only to find out in the end credits that it was “based on a true story”?
Enter Brian J. Morra’s new historical thriller, The Able Archers, a fictional account of true events that took place in 1983 and which have only recently been de-classified for public consumption.
In the book, Morra, a former U.S. intelligence officer, retired senior aerospace executive and Sarasota resident, is sharing his experience with the 1983 nuclear crisis during the Cold War.
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Morra grew up in Roanoke, Virginia, where he was fascinated by international affairs and eventually earned a B.A. in Russian and Asian history from William and Mary, as well as advanced degrees from the University of Oklahoma, Georgetown and Harvard Business School.
During his career as an intelligence officer, Morra helped lead the American intelligence team in Japan to uncover the true story behind the Soviet Union’s shooting of Korean Airlines flight 007 in September 1983, which set off the nuclear crisis between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
Morra continued to serve on the Air Staff at the Pentagon until he retired in 2017. After moving to Sarasota, he thought his military days were behind him. But after encouragement from family, friends and former co-workers, Morra finally decided to sit down and write about the covert operations and events that occurred that fateful autumn in 1983.
The book presents the story in a historical-fiction format with two main characters teaming up to stop the catastrophic event from happening. The catch? One is a U.S. Air Force captain named Kevin Cattani, while the other is a chief intelligence officer for the Soviet Union, Colonel Ivan Levchenko. The story unfolds through the eyes of two conflicting worldviews.
The 1983 crisis was classified until 2015, when documents about the events were released and the public became aware of it for the first time. Morra wanted to…