First-novelist Weber writes of post-Gorby Soviet hard-liners who
plan a sneak nuclear attack on the US - and bring the world to the
brink of all-out war. Glasnost ends for the USSR when a Libyan
armed with a ground-to-air missile imposes fatal perestroika on the
General Secretary's airplane. The assassin is in the pay of a cabal
of Brezhnevite cold warriors who long for the good old days of
international tensions and intrigue. Having disposed of the
traitorous Gorbachev, the plotters step in to seize control of the
Politburo and the military machinery and begin a campaign of
harassment against the US. Soviet jets begin to test the limits of
American naval air defense, and Soviet subs nip at the heels of
American warships. The strategy is to provoke the Americans to go
to a state of maximum readiness for war - and then lull them into
backing off just before the Soviets launch a surprise attack. But
the Americans have planted a spy in the kitchen of the new Soviet
dictator. With the help of an endlessly resourceful CIA agent, the
kitchen spy escapes the Kremlin and heads for the Baltic coast,
fighting off platoons of KGB agents at every turn, in order to get
word of the sneak attack to the Americans before it's too late. As
the spies slog through the snow, the American military machine
gears up and prepares for the worst. Respectable tension and fast
action are dragged down by those twin curses of the military
thriller - leaden dialogue and wooden characters: "'Colonel, I'd
like to arrive. . .ahead of our schedule. Think we can do that?'
'Yes, sir. No problem. We'll put another man on the coal shovel.'
The President chuckled, thinking about the dry sense of humor. .
.the commander of Air Force One continually displayed." (Kirkus
Reviews)
The New York Times Best Seller From the acclaimed thriller writer,
Joe Weber, comes a chilling novel of the Cold War. The United
States and Soviet Union are at the brink of war. Fearful of US
plans for an anti-missile defense system, the Soviet General
Secretary conceives a plan to act first. Russian Bear bombers
violate US airspace, leading to a response by American F-15s. A US
Navy battle group is attacked in the North Atlantic. And in orbit,
a Soviet hunter-killer satellite attacks an American space shuttle.
As the world careens towards a nuclear conflict, only a lone CIA
operative stands between peace and utter destruction. But can he
act in time? Vividly portraying the real world of military hardware
and combining it with page-turning action, DEFCON One is the
definition of a classic thriller.
General
Imprint: |
HarperCollinsPublishers
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
July 1991 |
Authors: |
Joe Weber
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Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - B-format
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Pages: |
400 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-586-20982-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
War fiction >
General
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LSN: |
0-586-20982-4 |
Barcode: |
9780586209820 |
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