Fifth force assembling is a highly charged spy novel, which revives the spirit of the Cold War. A team of Russian special operations agents attacks and penetrates into an underground secret military installation in Minnesota. Their aim is to steal and transmit important data, and destroy the installation. The data is part of a top-level classified military project, and the attack on the mine shaft housing the installation is immediately brought to the attention of the President. Caleb Quinn, Colonel (retired) must at all cost prevent the theft of the data.

Banking on spy novels of the Cold War era, Fifth force assembling brings a number of plot elements to the fore involving ethnic relations, going back to the origins of the Russian state, involving a branch of the Khazars.

The American author of Fifth force assembling, John Uldrich holds degrees in Political Science and Asian Studies. He has published in the US, but remains a relatively unknown author. Fifth force assembling was first published in a hardback edition in Shanghai, China in 2000. ( )