Snow Wolf is an espionage

Espionage

Espionage or spying involves an individual obtaining information that is considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. Espionage is inherently clandestine, lest the legitimate holder of the information change plans or take other countermeasures once it...

 novel by Glenn Meade

Glenn Meade

Glenn Meade is an Irish author. He was born in Finglas, Dublin in 1957. He has written fiction and plays.-Career:In the 1980s Meade wrote and directed a number of his own plays for the Strand Theatre in Dublin. He originally worked as a pilot trainer for Aer Lingus, before becoming a journalist for...

. Published in 1997, its plot concerns a covert attempt by US operatives on the life of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...

in late 1952 and early 1953. As precise details of Stalin's death remain undisclosed, and the official account is questioned by historians, the novel could in theory be closer to fact than fiction.