A
book by
Brendan DuBois that faces a What if the
Cuban Missile Crisis escalated into
nuclear warfare after the
US invaded
Cuba in response to a
U-2 spyplane being shot down why flying
reconnaissance missions. When all is over, the
Soviet Union has ceased to exist (being
blown off the planet), but the
United States has lost
Washington, DC;
New York;
San Diego, and most of their
civil liberties.
A reporter for a Boston newspaper investigates the muder of an old vet, but the crime turns out to have much larger implications when he finds that the victim had been a military liaison stationed at the White House in those last fateful days.
Point of divergence from our timeline: 1942