SEA LION PRESS

By Andy Cooke Aleksandr Vishnevsky was the best surgeon on the staff of Dr Boris Petrovsy, the Minister of Health for the Soviet Union - himself a highly experienced surgeon. It was mid-afternoon on the 14th of January, 1966, and Vishnevsky had been unexpectedly rushed from a resort near the Kremlin clinic and into the operating room. In which lay a patient on whom the Minister himself had been operating. He took one look at the patient, lying opened up on the table, and gr