When mysterious accidents plague American and Soviet military units (I read this book in 1988), the superpowers are pushed to the brink of war. A team of fringe... » 

When mysterious accidents plague American and Soviet military units (I read this book in 1988), the superpowers are pushed to the brink of war. A team of fringe scientists, however, sees a more ominous cause behind the strange mishaps, one that goes beyond politics and transforms your typical cold-war technothriller into a doomsday tale along the lines of that great Brit sci-fi flick "The Day the Earth Caught Fire". Unfortunately, the author waits a tad too long to make the transformation, leaving his best charachters a bit underdone. Still, once the charachters are brought in, author Wheeler doesn't just jump to the chase, but prolongs the mystery and the scientific underpinnings of the story. «