THE RUSSIAN SHOOT

About the Book

The time is the USSR in late September of 1963….one year after the Soviets brought the world to the edge of a nuclear catastrophe by placing long range rockets in Cuba. The Russians and Americans are on razor’s edge, engaged in a deadly arms race that history records as the Cold War. This one of a kind book is based on the true-to-life experiences of an American film maker, Robert Williams, visiting the Soviet Union in the autumn of 1963 posing as a tourist…while he actually gathers background scenes for an anti-communist documentary film. Williams narrowly escapes incarceration in a Soviet glug as his trip becomes a harrowing nightmare of murder, mystery and mayhem. The Russian Shoot takes readers behind the mysterious walls of the Kremlin, revealing a paranoid ruling society fraught with internal power struggles, political murders, sex, and dangerous international intrigues. As Williams films in Leningrad and Moscow the shortcomings of communism is graphically portrayed as never before. Devotes of espionage and the deadly turns and twists of the Cold War will find this book a must read! The fascinating events portrayed in The Russian Shoot became the basis of full length motion picture documentary entitled Freedom Mightier than Missiles. The outstanding production was personally awarded the coveted George Washington Freedom Foundation Medal by the late President Eisenhower. Inscribed on the prestigious award are the words “For Outstanding Achievement in Bringing about a Better Understanding of the American Way of Life.”

About the Author

Robert W. Swanson is an internationally recognized producer of documentary films/videos, spanning 50 nations. His professional scripting and directorial accomplishments have been recognized with such distinguished awards as the Golden Washington Freedom, New York Film Festival, Gold Medal Berlin, George Washington Freedom Medal, and many Golden Eagles. His cinematic credits include productions on French and German Wines, Boy Scouts of America, many of the world’s major hotels, and dozens of Fortune 550 companies. Swanson (a graduate of the University of Wisconsin) is father to two children, and grandfather to three youngsters. Now a widower, he makes his home in Largo, Florida.