In the press materials about this novel, he writes about how his childhood home was only a few miles from a Strategic Air Command base that housed B-52 bombers. But the novel is also a thriller, and it will make you think about newspapers and freedom of the press, political secrets and the military, and the truths and myths on which our society functions.ĭuBois graduated from UNH in 1982 and is the author of the Lewis Cole mysteries and numerous short stories, which have earned him a Shamus Award and three Edgar Award nominations. You will very much enjoy the spins and turns of this clever alternative history, and be both horrified and intrigued with the author's conception of the U.S. When he is murdered before Landry can meet with him, a race ensues to find the information, and Landry is not sure with whom he is competing. It would be unkind to give away too much of DuBois's plot, so this will suffice: Landry chances upon one of the surviving members of President Kennedy's Executive Committee, who has significant information to share about the beginning of the war. Imposes Arms Blockade on Cuba on Finding Offensive Missile Sites Kennedy Ready for Soviet Showdown," "Airborne Forces and Marines Land in Cuba Missile Sites Bombed After U-2 is Lost Kennedy Warns of 'Grave Days Ahead,'" and "Washington, San Diego, Military Bases Bombed Kennedy and Most of Congress Believed Dead." Other Globe headlines will clue you in to the twist on history that DuBois creates in this imaginative story: "U.S.
Martial Law? National Emergency? The Cuban War? Army under the provisions of the Martial Law Declaration of 1962 and the National Emergency Declaration of 1963." The Boston Globe publishes in every issue what Carl Landry, a general assignment reporter for the paper and the novel's main character, calls the "Bleep You Box." It reads, "To our readers: The stories appearing in today's Boston Globe have been cleared by the U.S. It's 1972 in Brendan DuBois's new novel, 10 years after the Cuban War.
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