Pinkbridge's Plan

By: Daniel Platt

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Pinkbridge’s Plan is an espionage thriller/historical fiction novel which offers the reader an unsettling glimpse behind the solemn academic façade of geopolitics, in the form of a battle of wits between a British MI6 operative and a journalism professor from Indonesia. It departs from all the usual neoconservative formulas for assigning the roles of good guys and bad guys, and reflects what may be an ongoing change in the global zeitgeist.

Roger Pinkbridge, a British professor and MI6 operative, has been sent to the U.S. in the late 1970s to sell to that nation’s leaders a plan that ostensibly involves manipulating Muslim radicals in North Yemen to destabilize the USSR, by creating a chain reaction of conflict along its borders—but the plan does more than Pinkbridge discloses. He and his team engineer the false-flag downing of a Soviet airliner, implicating the U.S. government, sparking international outrage, and threatening to trigger a U.S.-Soviet military confrontation. How will the U.S. President respond?

Bulana Zees, an Indonesian-born professor, journalist, and activist in California, leads the Kemajuan Institute, opposing colonialism (which she insists is inconsistent with the ideals of the American Revolution), and exposing British influence on U.S. foreign policy. Her battle of wits with Pinkbridge takes the reader on a journey across four continents, and puts the history of the past eight decades in an entirely new light.