It is January 1964 in an alternative timeline in which the Cuban Missiles Crisis went disastrously wrong and the swinging sixties never happened.
Although the fires of Washington DC have been extinguished and there is a new but fragile rapprochement between the old trans-Atlantic allies, both old allies are beset with internal schisms that threaten any prospect of a return to politics and business as usual.
Now something is stirring in the Anatolian heartland of a devastated Turkey, spreading around the Black Sea, into the Aegean across the shattered former Soviet client states bordering the Balkans. Photographs taken by U-2 spy planes provide tantalising clues, radio intercepts hint at secret armies, and of a ragged tsunami of refugees fleeing from Turkey and the Greek Islands recount horrific tales of invaders burning towns and villages and of big grey warships anchored beneath the walls of ancient Constantinople.
Yet at month after the Battle of Washington there is still no conclusive proof that the evil entity thought to be called Red Dawn actually exists, let alone if its agents were implicated in the events which almost provoked a war between the old Trans-Atlantic allies in December 1963.
How much is the peace treaty between America and Britain worth? Is the World really any safer than it has been at any time since the cataclysm of the October War? Might it already be too late to prepare for the next war?
The same war that nobody except a solitary rogue Soviet defector predicts is inevitable?
Now more than ever is the time for charismatic leaders to step forward.
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 RED DAWN = 10.
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