Ask Not Of Your Country

Book 4: Timeline 10/27/62 - USA

by James Philip

Genres: Historical Fiction; Alternative History sci-fi

Synopsis

It is June 1964 in the altered timeline of a world in which the Cuban Missiles Crises went disastrously wrong and the swinging sixties never happened.

‘Ask Not of Your Country’ is the fourth verse of the American story of Armageddon.

To its friends and enemies alike the United States seems to have emerged from the October War battered, bruised but invincible. However, twenty months after the cataclysm terrible wounds remain unhealed and the nation of liberty is riven by conflict.

What price unity when the war-ravaged states of the American North West and the Great Lakes already feel like the battlegrounds in the next war? Or while racial tensions erupt across the South and civil war threatens in Illinois and Wisconsin, Congress and the Administration are deadlocked as the old alliance with the British disintegrates.

Paralysis rules in America, in the Middle East as the Red Army surges south towards the Persian Gulf in Philadelphia the Kennedy Administration turns a blind eye, pandering to the most virulent strain of the ‘America First’ movement in what is election year.

The survivors had honestly believed that the World had gone mad in October 1962. Now they are beginning to ask themselves how much worse things can get?

Tragically, the answer is that things can get a lot, lot worse.

Never was Jack Kennedy’s inaugural appeal for all Americans to ‘ask not what your country can do for you’ but to ‘ask what you can do for your country’ more apposite.

Welcome to the fourth verse of Timeline 10/27/62 – USA Series.

Author’s note to readers: since the publication of ‘Operation Anadyr’ in October 2014, the Timeline 10/27/62 series has branched into and explored a number of additional narrative arcs and themes, and in several standalone stories.

For my readers who prefer to read the Timeline 10/27/62 books in the chronological order of the overall narrative arc ASK NOT OF YOUR COUNTRY = 17.

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Release date: December 25, 2016

Print pages: 281