The Ugly American

<p>The ineffectual Ambassador is just one of the handicaps facing the Americans as Southeast Asia becomes increasingly involved with Communism</p>

Literature & Fiction

William J. Lederer

Eugene Burdick

Literary

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

<p>Something has gone wrong. A group of American bombers armed with nuclear weapons is streaking past the fail-safe point, beyond recall, and no one knows why. Their destination -- Moscow. In a bomb shelter beneath the White House, the calm young president turns to his Russian translator and says, "I think we are ready to talk to Premier Kruschchev." Not far away, in the War Room at the Pentagon, the secretary of defense and his aides watch with growing anxiety as the luminous blips crawl across a huge screen map. High over the Bering Strait in a large Vindicator bomber, a colonel stares in disbelief at the attack code number on his fail-safe box and wonders if it could possibly be a mistake.First published in 1962, when America was still reeling from the Cuban missle crisis, Fail-Safe reflects the apocalyptic attitude that pervaded society during the height of the Cold War, when disaster could have struck at any moment. As more countries develop nuclear capabiliti</p>

Fail Safe

Harvey Wheeler

Contemporary

Dell

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Andrew H. Malcolm

DAVID REED

Harland Manchester

Jo Stephens

READER\'S DIGEST

The 480

Genre Fiction

Spoken Realms and Blackstone Publishing

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