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Summary: One of the better alternate history books
Review: What would America be like if the Cuban Missile Crisis had heated up? Brendan DuBois asks this question in Resurrection Day and the answers are frightening. The protagonist is Carl Landry, an Army vet who now works as a reporter for the Boston Globe. Like many other people in this post apocalyptic America Landry just goes through the motions of living, marching on as his life descends into a grey twilight in an American police state. It is only after a military censor spikes one of his stories, a seemingly innocuous one about the murder of a fellow veteran, that Landry begins to ask questions. Who was Merl Sawson? What was the significance of the list of names that he gave Landry in an earlier meeting and why is the military so concerned with his death? Landry begins to ask these questions and the answers lead him to bombed out Manhattan, the remains of Hyannisport, destroyed by anti-Kennedy mobs and into a liaason with a reporter from the London Times who is not all that she seems. All in all this is an excellent book, more plausible than Robert Harris's Fatherland as this really could have happened and almost did.
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Summary: Extremely Disappointing Book
Review: Yes, a great AH book, well thought out. Then you think.....hang on a bit, the USSR was smashed by SAC but spared Western Europe? No way those hundreds of IRBMs aimed at European NATO would not have been used, specially against UK and Germany. Otherwise, great.
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