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Pitiless as the Sun

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1978, the height of the Cold War. Scott Shoemaker, fueled by stolen cocaine, bounds into a Southern California think-tank to join Project Eagle. This team of elite scientists must meet a terrifying challenge: the Soviet Union’s SS18 SATAN. The giant missile, tipped with a dozen thermonuclear warheads, will render America vulnerable to Soviet blackmail. Project Eagle has ninety days to devise a strategy to blunt the Soviet threat.
As Eagle begins, Scott hears that Sara, his former lover, has disappeared. He must find her, even as the Eagle team grapples with the dilemma of nuclear strategy—that every safeguard threatens to draw war nearer. Scott spirals deeper into addiction as he searches across the sun-drenched and shattered landscape of California. Meanwhile the Eagle team, riven with political intrigue and petty jealousies, devises ever more dangerous nuclear strategies. Even more alarming, the first clues emerge that any nuclear exchange might send global temperatures plummeting, and threaten all life on earth.
Scott struggles to find intellectual courage, a moral center, and the beautiful and doomed Sara. His journey—and the lost decade of the 1970s—both end amid the South American jungle in a place called Jonestown, the utopian vision of a madman or a saint.

Language: English

Pages: 292

Format: Kindle Edition

Pitiless as the Sun

0/5 ( ratings)

1978, the height of the Cold War. Scott Shoemaker, fueled by stolen cocaine, bounds into a Southern California think-tank to join Project Eagle. This team of elite scientists must meet a terrifying challenge: the Soviet Union’s SS18 SATAN. The giant missile, tipped with a dozen thermonuclear warheads, will render America vulnerable to Soviet blackmail. Project Eagle has ninety days to devise a strategy to blunt the Soviet threat.
As Eagle begins, Scott hears that Sara, his former lover, has disappeared. He must find her, even as the Eagle team grapples with the dilemma of nuclear strategy—that every safeguard threatens to draw war nearer. Scott spirals deeper into addiction as he searches across the sun-drenched and shattered landscape of California. Meanwhile the Eagle team, riven with political intrigue and petty jealousies, devises ever more dangerous nuclear strategies. Even more alarming, the first clues emerge that any nuclear exchange might send global temperatures plummeting, and threaten all life on earth.
Scott struggles to find intellectual courage, a moral center, and the beautiful and doomed Sara. His journey—and the lost decade of the 1970s—both end amid the South American jungle in a place called Jonestown, the utopian vision of a madman or a saint.

Language: English

Pages: 292

Format: Kindle Edition

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