The C-Factor is an action packed intelligent thriller. Historical facts set the stage for the story plot. The Russians in the late 70's steal the solid rocket fuel formula America uses for its nuclear missile system. But, what if what they stole turned out to be a Pandora's box? An American Doctor leads a team of United Nations Inspectors to the Soviet Ukraine. Solving a medical mystery will lead to the unraveling of a secret capable of bringing down the entire social and political structure of the Soviet Union. The C-Factor's characters become participants in a run for your life thriller with a love story adding intensity to the plot.George Taylor,doctor, cancer researcher and college professor leads a team of doctors and nuclear engineers on a United Nations World Health Organization Inspection to the Ukrainian State of the Soviet Union. The team's mission is to access the effects of nuclear power usage on the workers, families and local communities surrounding several nuclear energy facilities. During the course of the inspection mission he will discover the answer to a mystery that began years earlier in Greenland. This discovery if released, will place the entire Soviet social and political system at risk. George will find his loyalties challenged between the goals of the United Nations Inspection Mission and those of his secret involvement with the President's National Security Agency. The height of the 'cold war' is the setting for this mystery, adventure and love story. A time when the world's two super powers seemed intent on the assured mutual destruction of each other and their actions pushed the probability closer each day.