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[PAST EVENT] Writers of Washington - The Righteous Arrows

October 1, 2024
5:30pm - 7:30pm
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Washington Center, Zoom
901 4th St, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20001Map this location
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Join us for a book talk with award-winning author, Brian Morra '78. Brian, Professor of Russian Studies, Sasha Prokhorov, and Elena Prokhorova will lead us on a deep dive into his book, The Righteous Arrows, his second book in his series. Brian was featured in our Writers of Washington series back in May of 2022 for the first book in the series, The Able Archers.

Brian is a highly decorated former American intelligence officer and a retired aerospace executive. He is the author of the award-winning Able Archers series of historical thrillers. Brian bases his book's characters on himself and on people he encountered as an intelligence officer. He also brings into play countries and places that he knows firsthand in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. His books are based on real events but read like page-turning thrillers.

Brian has written numerous articles for national publications and is an on-air expert in the new Netflix series on the Cold War called Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War. He also contributed his extensive expertise to the newly released CNN/BBC documentary called Secrets and Spies: A Nuclear Game. Brian was also featured on an episode of Turning Point - The Bomb and the Cold War, a Netflix series that explores the Cold War and its aftermath.

A brief synopsis of The Righteous Arrows:

After collaborating to thwart nuclear war in The Able Archers, Kevin Cattani and his Soviet counterpart, Ivan Levchenko, developed a deep mutual respect—but in The Righteous Arrows they are working against each other. Cattani, despite serious misgivings, conducts a perilous covert mission inside a Soviet bunker and barely escapes with his life, putting himself on a collision course with Levchenko. Their ultimate confrontation comes on a battlefield during the brutal Soviet war in Afghanistan, where Levchenko issues the American an ominous warning that will echo for decades.

Foreshadowing the global war on terror, former Air Force Intelligence officer Brian Morra illuminates the stubbornly persistent rivalry between the US and Russia in this heart-stopping story of international espionage and war.

This event will be held via Zoom.



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