Launch Code
β Scribed by Michael Ridpath
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books;Corvus
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 183 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 178649700X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
**'Hugely enjoyable and thought-provoking,Launch Code brings to mind the classic thrillers of Alister Maclean and Jack Higgins. A well-crafted ingenious mystery, tightly plotted, compelling and contemporary, this could well be Michael Ridpath's best novel yet.' - **Stav Sherez, author of the Carrigan & Miller series
November 1983 : Three hundred feet beneath the Atlantic, submarine Lieutenant Bill Guth and his fellow officers suddenly receive the order they've long-dreaded - to launch their nuclear missiles in a retaliatory strike against the USSR. But in the unexpected chaos that follows, one person on board lies dead...
Norfolk, 2019 : Bill Guth's annual family gathering is interrupted when a historian turns up unannounced to ask about the near-apocalyptic incident back in 1983. Bill refuses to answer. But that night, the historian is brutally murdered.
Bill and his family are thrown under suspicion. What happened...
β¦ Subjects
thriller
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