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From the dust jacket of the 1962 Doubleday first edition : The receipt of a message sent simultaneously by two physicists -- one an American, the other a Russian -- to their respective governments threatened the destruction of New York and Moscow unless the two governments agreed to ban nuclear weapons. The men had met at an international conference and decided that if the two great powers could not agree to disarm, they would take matters into their own hands. Did they really have two atom bombs? It might all be a hoax, but the chance is too great to take and Professor Horton must be found.
Tom Clancy, a former physicist now on the police force, is assigned to fill Horton's place at the university from which Horton had disappeared. One of his main objectives is to win the confidence of Phyllis Goldmark, a colleague and friend of Horton, an assignment that turns out to have its compensations.
As the suspense mounts and the day of the threatened bombing draws closer, Clancy and Phyllis are in constant danger, searching the huge city for a man who had left remarkably few clues.
E.V. Cunningham has written a hardhitting, fast moving novel that is suspense at its very best. Its philosophical overtones and the depth of its characterizations make it an adventure in excitement which is both timely and thoughtful.
Tom Clancy, a former physicist now on the police force, is assigned to fill Horton's place at the university from which Horton had disappeared. One of his main objectives is to win the confidence of Phyllis Goldmark, a colleague and friend of Horton, an assignment that turns out to have its compensations.
As the suspense mounts and the day of the threatened bombing draws closer, Clancy and Phyllis are in constant danger, searching the huge city for a man who had left remarkably few clues.
E.V. Cunningham has written a hardhitting, fast moving novel that is suspense at its very best. Its philosophical overtones and the depth of its characterizations make it an adventure in excitement which is both timely and thoughtful.
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156 pages
First published January 1, 1962
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E.V. Cunningham
35 books10 followersEV Cunningham is a pseudonym used by author: Howard Fast, and under that name he wrote 21 mystery novels plus two others, one under his own name and one using another pseudonym Walter Ericson.
He was educated at George Washington High School, graduating in 1931. He attended the National Academy of Design in New York before serving with the Office of War Information between 1942 and 1943 and the Army Film Project in 1944.
He became war correspondent in the Far East for 'Esquire' and 'Coronet' magazines in 1945. And after the war he taught at Indiana University, Bloomington, in the summer of 1947, a year in which he was imprisoned for contempt of Congress, concerning his communistic views.
He became the owner of the Blue Heron Press in New York in 1952, a position he held until 1957. And he was the founder of the World Peace Movement and a member of the World Peace Council from 1950 to 1955 and was later a member of the Fellowship for Reconciliation. In 1952 he was an American Labour Party candidate for Congress for the 23rd District of New York.
He received a great many awards between 1933 and 1967.
He married Bette Cohen in 1937 and they had one son and one daughter.
Under his own name he wrote 35 works of fiction plus a variety of history and critical works, short stories, plays and a screenplay, 'The Hessian' (1971) plus a book of verse with William Gropper.
He died died at his home in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, on 12 March 2003.
Gerry Wolstenholme
March 2022
He was educated at George Washington High School, graduating in 1931. He attended the National Academy of Design in New York before serving with the Office of War Information between 1942 and 1943 and the Army Film Project in 1944.
He became war correspondent in the Far East for 'Esquire' and 'Coronet' magazines in 1945. And after the war he taught at Indiana University, Bloomington, in the summer of 1947, a year in which he was imprisoned for contempt of Congress, concerning his communistic views.
He became the owner of the Blue Heron Press in New York in 1952, a position he held until 1957. And he was the founder of the World Peace Movement and a member of the World Peace Council from 1950 to 1955 and was later a member of the Fellowship for Reconciliation. In 1952 he was an American Labour Party candidate for Congress for the 23rd District of New York.
He received a great many awards between 1933 and 1967.
He married Bette Cohen in 1937 and they had one son and one daughter.
Under his own name he wrote 35 works of fiction plus a variety of history and critical works, short stories, plays and a screenplay, 'The Hessian' (1971) plus a book of verse with William Gropper.
He died died at his home in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, on 12 March 2003.
Gerry Wolstenholme
March 2022
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