DOOMSDAY BLUES is the fifth book of the COUNTDOWN TO WAR series.
It is February 1962. John Glenn, the first American has finally contrived to orbit the Earth. In Laurel Canyon and Beverley Hills one journey pauses and another ends. In England Peter Christopher guiltily reflects on his prospective marriage to a woman he does not love and the likely end of his long-distance, relationship with Maria Calleja, as he goes about his work on board HMS Talavera at Chatham. In Washington and Moscow, the spy game continues, wheels within wheels until it is unclear who exactly, is playing whom…
The only thing which is constant is the Cold War poison looming above the world.
The COUNTDOWN TO WAR has reached eight minutes to midnight…
For my readers who prefer to read the Timeline 10/27/62 books in the chronological order of the overall narrative arc DOOMSDAY BLUES = 5.