‘CROW ON THE CRADLE’ is to all intents, the sequel to THE AMERICAN DREAM.
It is January 1965 in a World in which the Cuban Missiles Crisis went horribly wrong and the ‘swinging sixties’ never happened.
In the United States a new President has entered the White House; in Britain the country will shortly be going to the polls for the first time since the October War. But with the return of ‘normal’ politics there is no return to the ‘normality’ of the old, now lost World order.
The shooting may have stopped in the American Midwest, and an uneasy peace may have descended in the Mediterranean and the Middle East but little has been settled. In England it seems as if the electorate will take its revenge on ‘The Angry Widow’ who led the country through the battles of 1964, in Philadelphia the new Administration finds itself embroiled in scandal within weeks, and all the while the great peace conference in Manhattan stalls.
In Europe the human fallout quickens; across the stormy wintery English Channel the survivors from the devastated lands of the East flood into France and suddenly, a new chaos stretches from the Atlantic to the Urals, with the British Isles, Portugal and fascist Spain the last remaining remnants of what was once Western European civilization.
Peace of a sort has come to much of the World; but is it the tranquility of ruins or the harbinger of fresh storms?
There has been no washing of the spears since the catastrophe of October 1962; who can say that the crow on the cradle has not had the last laugh?
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 CROW ON THE CRADLE = 20.
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