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2) On the beach
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1957
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an inevitable end as radiation poisoning moves toward Australia from the North.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Description
This breathtaking dystopian psychological thriller follows an American academic stranded at a Swiss hotel as the world descends into nuclear war--along with twenty other survivors--who becomes obsessed with identifying a murderer in their midst after the body of a young girl is discovered in one of the hotel's water tanks. Jon thought he had all the time in the world to respond to his wife's text message: I miss you so much. I feel bad about how we...
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"With America brought to the brink of destruction, one woman becomes the last hope of a nation and its people... Victoria Emerson is a congressional member of the U. S. House of Representatives for the state of West Virginia. Her aspirations have always been to help her community and to avoid the ambitious power plays of her peers in Washington D. C. Then Major Joseph McCrea appears on her doorstep and uses the code phrase Crimson Phoenix, meaning...
5) The wall
Author
Publisher
[New Directions Publishing]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 21 cm
Description
While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. With a cat, a dog, and a cow as her sole companions, she learns how to survive and cope with her loneliness. Allegorical yet deeply personal and absorbing, The Wall is at once a critique of modern civilization, a nuanced and loving portrait of a relationship between a woman...
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Series
Camel Club novels volume 1
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
The Camel Club is a four-man group of Washington, D.C. misfits, that meet weekly to discuss political conspiracies they believe exist and what actions they might take. One night club members witness the murder of Secret Service employee Patrick Johnson, thus thrusting the wacky crew into the middle of a bigger conspiracy than they could ever have imagined.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
372 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
Fred Kaplan takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staffs “Tank” in the Pentagon, and the vast chambers of Strategic Command to bring us the untold storiesbased on exclusive interviews and previously classified documentsof how Americas presidents and generals have thought about, threatened, broached, and just barely avoided nuclear war from the dawn of the atomic age until today. Kaplans historical research and deep...
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Series
One second after volume 2
Description
"Months before publication, William R. Forstchen's One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. Hundreds of thousands of people have read the tale. One Year After is the thrilling follow-up to that smash hit. The story picks up a year after One Second After ends, two years since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States brought America to its knees. After suffering starvation, war, and countless...
10) Fallout
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Description
When an unthinkable nuclear attack occurs in an alternate-reality 1962, Scott is forced into his father's bomb shelter with his family and neighbors, where they rapidly consume limited supplies and fear the worst about the fate of the world outside.
11) Dead hand
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Description
When an unforeseen asteroid strikes Siberia with the force of a thousand Hiroshimas, it triggers Dead Hand, the ultimate defense mechanism developed by the Soviets at the height of the Cold War.
The missiles are pointing at the United States and its European allies, and ultra-nationalist General Likatchev is willing to use them as blackmail to topple the government in Moscow and return Russia to her status as world power.
When Russia responds to...
Author
Series
Twelfth Imam novels volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
x, 470 pages ; 24 cm
Description
After Israel declares war on Iran, CIA operative David Shirazi infiltrates the Iranian regime and intercepts information indicating that two Iranian nuclear warheads have been moved to a secure and undisclosed location.
13) Plan of attack
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 12
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
xvii, 345 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Patrick McLanahan learns about a potentially devastating retaliatory Russian attack on America's air forces and faces limited options when planning a counterstrike.
14) The twelfth Imam
Author
Series
Twelfth Imam novels volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
viii, 490 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
As the apocalyptic leaders of Iran call for the annihilation of Israel and the U.S., CIA operative David Shirazi is sent into Tehran with one objective: use all means necessary to disrupt Iran's nuclear weapons program, without leaving American fingerprints and without triggering a regional war. A native Farsi speaker whose family escaped from Iran in 1979, he couldn't be better prepared for the mission. But none of his training has prepared Shirazi...
Author
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
xiii, 334 pages ; 21 cm
Description
In the Utah desert, Brother Francis of the Albertian Order of Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: the relics of the martyr Isaac Leibowitz himself, including the blessed blueprint and the sacred shopping list. They may provide a bright ray of hope in a terrifying age of darkness, a time of ignorance and genetic monsters that are the unholy aftermath of the Flame Deluge. But as the spellbinding mystery at the core of this extraordinary novel...
Author
Series
Twelfth Imam novels volume 2
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xiii, 462 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
With the stakes high and few viable options left, the president of the United States orders CIA operative David Shirazi and his team to track down and sabotage Iran's nuclear warheads before Iran or Israel can launch a devastating first strike.
17) Never
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Navigating terrorist attacks, illegal arms trading and smear campaigns, Pauline Green, the country's first women president, is caught in a complex web of alliances with the most powerful countries that are being orchestrated by the enemy, and only those with the most elite skills can stop the inevitable.
18) The expediter
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Series
Kirk McGarvey adventures volume 13
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 25 cm.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
420 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
The former defense analyst who revealed the Pentagon Papers offers an eyewitness account of America's nuclear program in the 1960s and reveals the dangers in the country's seventy-year-long nuclear policy.
20) Raven Rock: the story of the U.S. Government's secret plan to save itself-while the rest of us die
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxv, 529 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
Description
"The eye-opening truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil--even if the rest of us die--a roadmap that spans from the dawn of the nuclear age to today"--Provided by publisher.
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