The Last Decathlon paperback cover (John Berkey 1979)

The games begin. The crowds go wild. But when the U.S. team marches in, decathlon champion and world-record holder Chad Norris is missing!

As the political thermometer soars, a crack team of CIA and KGB agents raises startling questions. Why has Chad lied about his past? Why is there no record of his existence? In the blurred, torn photograph, who is the beautiful Russian woman by his side?

Is it possible that not even she knows his dangerous secret, the mission that has brought him to Russia, that threatens her life and his- and may make this... THE LAST DECATHLON