The Great Storm

March 1962

THE GREAT STORM is the sixth book of the COUNTDOWN TO WAR series.

It is March 1962. A once in a century storm sweep up the East Coast of America and far inland. In England two friends yearn to go to sea again, the one to escape the other to mend the fences he has so careless broken. In Washington DC other conundrums are beginning to play out and the whims of the Cuban dictator, Fidel Castro threaten to open a Havana-Moscow can of worms. The tickertape has been cleared from the streets of Manhattan, nearly four thousand tons of it to celebrate John Glenn’s brief orbital journey but never more was the Space Race a proxy for a real war.

And the sleepwalk to war begins, imperceptibly to gather new pace. Vulcans of Bomber Command play practice war games; the B-52s of Strategic Air Command fly their doomsday failsafe missions over the Arctic, and the COUNTDOWN TO WAR continues…

The COUNTDOWN TO WAR has reached seven minutes to midnight…

For my readers who prefer to read the Timeline 10/27/62 books in the chronological order of the overall narrative arc THE GREAT STORM = 6.