Shadows

by Peter J Manos

Though land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles are sitting ducks on hair-trigger alert, they have their the air force, the aero-space industry, and people whose jobs may depend on them.

So who will campaign against a new, unnecessary, and dangerous silo-based missile?

Why a seventy-eight-year-old red-headed widow, of course, who sometimes wears a witch’s hat.

384 pages, Paperback

Published August 7, 2021

Reviews

[Jesse · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nuclear missiles, blackmail sex, witch hats, LSD and a grassroots protest movement. Manos weaves together a wide and compelling cast of characters around a central narrative about the danger of our military's "Ground Based Strategic Deterrent" system of underground intercontinental nuclear missiles. These holocaust-machines sit in wait in various locations across the central U.S. ready to fire in a near instant if the threat of an imminent nuclear attack on the U.S. is detected. They have nearly been triggered by false alarms in the past. Many have argued they are completely unnecessary and dangerous given that we still have two other legs of our nuclear triad (bombers and submarines). Even though there is much to learn from the well-researched book, the story is far from dry, historical, or ham-fisted in its politics. Instead, Manos delivers an entertaining, fast-moving, and wide-reaching narrative which kept the pages turning.

[Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very timely! A must read that will educate you about the Air Force's GBSD's (nuclear missiles) while somehow being very entertaining -- even though it's actually quite unsettling -- especially at this time in "history". It was very hard to put down. It has everything that makes for a good book -- romance, life-like characters who become good friends, and more.