"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. 100,000 first printing $150,000 ad/promo.Ĭopyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. The process by which responses to Russian provocation escalate to the limit is frighteningly credible, even in the age of glasnost. The novel's secret-agent aspect, a fast-paced escape-and-evasion trail through the heart of the Soviet Union, is only slightly less effective. Weber, a former Marine fighter pilot, handles the military aspects of the developing confrontation convincingly, concentrating on air and naval operations. to the brink of war-a state called Defense Readiness Condition Two, only one stage below maximum readiness, DefCon One-and then suddenly relax the pressure. Both 'The Minotaur,' by veteran author Stephen Coonts, and 'Defcon One,' by newcomer Joe Weber, serve up the action in heaping ladles. Thats what the reader wants from a techno-thriller. The assassination of the Soviet premier brings to power a hard-liner with a daring plan: to force the U.S. by Jim Trageser These reviews first appeared in the San Diego Evening Tribune in 1989. about to take a commanding lead in the arms race, thanks to a combination of Stealth technology and SDI. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Ī first novel, this gripping techno-thriller is set in the early 1990s, with the Soviet system falling apart and the U.S. Pineiro, the acclaimed author of Without Mercy, comes a new novel of global terrorism and international conflict. if military thrillers are for you, then DEFCON One is a must-read.”- Atlantic City Press From the New York Times best-selling author of DEFCON One, Joe Weber, and R. “A war thriller not for the faint of heart . . . Vividly portraying the real world of military hardware and combining it with page-turning action, DEFCON One is the definition of a classic thriller. And in orbit, a Soviet hunter-killer satellite attacks an American space shuttle.Īs the world careens towards a nuclear conflict, only a lone CIA operative stands between peace and utter destruction. A US Navy battle group is attacked in the North Atlantic. Russian Bear bombers violate US airspace, leading to a response by American F-15s. Fearful of US plans for an anti-missile defense system that could defeat a USSR first strike, the Soviet General Secretary, the conservative successor to Gorbachev, conceives a plan to act first. The United States and Soviet Union are at the brink of war.
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