Red Alert SADB5740063058

Author:Peter Bryant
Publisher:Ace F210
Year: 1958 Print: 1 Cover Price: $.40
Condition: Very Good. Light wear
Genre:Fiction
Pages: 191
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The basis for Stanley Kubricks masterpiece,Dr. Strangelove: A chilling Cold War thriller in which unchecked power unleashes total nuclear disaster.

Air Force Brigadier General Quinten is a dying man suffering from the paranoid delusion that he can make the world a better place by ordering a full-scale nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. Receiving word of the attack already underway, the president of the United States and his advisors now must work frantically to stop it. The US bombers are to be shot downbut a lone bomber called the Alabama Angel escapes and flies on to complete its lunatic mission, ignoring the presidents orders.

A ghastly and chilling vision of what might happen when profound and deadly power is put into the wrong hands, this classic thriller continues to serve as a warning in todays tumultuous political climate.