RED ALERT FOR ROMANIA is a seductive adventure novel set during the Cold War. It is built according to all the rules of the genre: seismologists involved in the series of events caused by the collapse of a Soviet military satellite, secret services engaged in tough operations to recover the module containing the military codes of the satellite, double agents... But the adventure, although exciting, is only a pretext that motivates the foray into a sick world - Romania before the Revolution of December 1989. The epilogue of the novel brings us to Romania after 1989 whose continuities suffocate changes, revealing their fragility. Professor Dr. Silviu ANGELESCU University of Bucharest