The 40-Minute War
by Janet E. Morris (Goodreads Author), Chris Morris
3.92 · Rating details · 185 ratings · 22 reviews
“After Washington, D.C. is vaporized by a nuclear surface blast, Marc Beck, wonder boy of the American foreign service, prevails on Ashmead, cover action chief, to help him fly two batches of anticancer serum from Israel to the Houston White House.
From the moment the establish their gritty relationship, life is filled with treachery and terror for Beck (who) must deal with one cliffhanger after another during the desperate days that follow. This novel shocks us with a sudden, satisfying ending.”
– PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“Adventure, suspense, high-tech – this book has it all, from the best new storytellers we have. You have to read this one.” – Dr. Jerry Pournelle, author of The Mote in God’s Eye and Mercenary
“Headlong and vivid – real characters drawn starkly against the catastrophe they race to undo.” – David Drake, author of Hammer’s Slammers
About the Author: Janet Morris and Chris Morris are the creators of numerous novels, stories, and works of nonfiction, as well as the editors of the Heroes in Hell series, winner of the Hugo Award. Janet is the only science fiction writer invited to
participate in the Rolex fiction program, Chris is an accomplished singer-songwriter and narrator, and the Morrises are widely known for their nonfiction work on national security topics such as nonlethal weapons and Russian technology as well as their
fiction and music. The Morrises’ joint fiction novels include The 40-Minute War, The Sacred Band, The Fish the Fighters and the Song-girl, OUTPASSAGE, The 40-Minute War, City at the Edge of Time, Tempus Unbound, Storm Seed, MEDUSA, the Threshold
Trilogy, The Little Helliad.
I personally was in bed NC17 with Janet Morris, aunt of my then girlfriend and future wife when Janet & I one month before the August 23, 1984 public release of this book was launched. We discussed this book in it's entirety. I do hope you can believe,
that same summer, Janet, Chris her husband and I as Thomas Baines authored "Weapons Of Mass Protection" an unclassified document detailing non-lethal technologies for air power in the age of chaos. President George W. Bush gave zero word of warning when "
Weapons of Mass Protection" became universally known as "Weapons of Mass Destruction". Unlike my quiet offline life after that, online, for starters after Bush's announcement, my inbox was consistently flooded for several weeks with dozens of inquiries
worldwide directed at the three of us. Believe you this, if you will, the University of Arizona for several weeks prior to 09/11/01 were visiting our websites and at the university were the two leaders of the 9/11/01 hijackers. Consistently leading up to
9/11/01 as a result of the August 23, 1984 release of that book, the CIA was in the otherwise drug dealing porn making lives of Janet & Chris Morris. By 1989 former deputy director of the CIA Ray S. Cline took Janet & Chris under his wing til 1994 as
Janet & Chris took myself under theirs yet again since early 1970's this time as a lead up to the internet.
The 40 Minute War single handedly puts in motion exactly why the 20th hijacker and sole pilot of the aborted DC mission Jet did walk away, no as planned nuclear weapons, as you will find, in the book, the usage thereof. Both Janet And Christopher Morris
reside on Cape Cod as does my ex wife Leonda Emmerich, all three are within Facebook.
Best,
William Mahler
https://mahlers.net
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