{"id":7773,"date":"2022-05-31T15:38:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T19:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?post_type=book&#038;p=7773"},"modified":"2022-05-31T15:39:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T19:39:24","slug":"the-tinderbox-plot","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/book\/the-tinderbox-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tinderbox Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Michael Berns \u201964, PhD \u201968<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A Big Red engineering grad is the heroine of this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/en\/book\/show\/58917668-the-tinderbox-plot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">neo-Cold War thriller<\/a>, in which an elite team of ex-KGB agents smuggles a nuclear bomb into the U.S. with the aim of causing mass causalities. The villains also plan to strike a blow against capitalist ideology by weaponizing the Internet\u2014exacerbating existing social divides and fomenting a second civil war in America. Fighting to stop them is a Cornell-educated expert in cybersecurity and image analysis who happens to be the former lover of the Russian spymaster at the heart of the scheme. The book is the debut novel for Berns, a biomedical engineer on the faculty of the University of California, Irvine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/books\/\">More books by Cornellian authors<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Big Red engineering grad is the heroine of this neo-Cold War thriller by Michael Berns \u201964, PhD \u201968, in which an elite team of ex-KGB agents smuggles a nuclear bomb into the U.S. with the aim of causing mass causalities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7804,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"cornell_author":[638],"cornell_year_book":[444],"class_list":["post-7773","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cornell_author-michael-berns-64-phd-68","cornell_year_book-444"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Tinderbox Plot - 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