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1 online resource (540 pages) |
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Print version record. |
Summary |
The Pentagon has a dirty, little secret they've been keeping quiet for forty years. During the Cold War, a number of live H-bombs were jettisoned and lost around the country as a result of mishaps and mid-air collisions. A disgraced former Pentagon weapons expert, Howie Collyer, who blew the whistle on the unrecovered H-bombs and lost his job as a result, learns from a nurse in a VA hospital that one of her patients has vague recollections of being the pilot on a B-52 plane that jettisoned a nuke. Collyer teams up with the nurse to kidnap the man from the hospital in the hopes he w. |
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Most people don't realize that eleven unrecovered nuclear weapons are scattered around the U.S. from mid-air mishaps and crashes when B-52s were in the air 24-7 during the Cold War. Howie Collyer, a disgraced Pentagon whistleblower, discovers an old pilot who might know a nuke's location. Kidnapping the pilot, he takes him on a search for the missing bomb, followed by al-Qaeda and the Pentagon. Who's going to get to the bomb first? --Collyer who will expose the threat lost nukes pose? The Pentagon, intent on continuing the coverup? Or the al-Qaeda suicide driver out to detonate the bomb, incinerating millions and making the Eastern Seaboard uninhabitable for centuries? |
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Qaida (Organization) -- Fiction.
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Qaida (Organization) (OCoLC)fst00763708
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Nuclear weapons -- United States -- Fiction.
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Bomber pilots -- Fiction.
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Conspiracies -- Fiction.
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FICTION -- Thrillers -- Political.
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FICTION -- General.
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Bomber pilots. (OCoLC)fst00835785
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Conspiracies. (OCoLC)fst00875715
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Nuclear weapons. (OCoLC)fst01040971
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Suspense fiction.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Vanderwarker, Tony. Sleeping Dogs : A Novel. New York : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., ©2014 |
ISBN |
9781629143187 (electronic bk.) |
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1629143189 (electronic bk.) |
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