Death by Fire

by Chris Davis

A novel about the Worldwide Military Command & Control System, or WIMEX as it s called at the Pentagon, the main circuit cable running from the White House Situation Room to the subs, bombers & silo-based ICBMs which comprise America s strategic defense triad. To some, the system s invulnerability to intrusion offers an unbeatable challenge to attack it. Such an attack, which no one is trained to defend, could lead the world to its Death by Fire. The plot of this book is just crazy enough to compute!

384 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1994

Reviews

[Rob Leininger · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think the author (Chris Davis) knows something about national security and the military, but odd errors intrude that make me wonder how much is based on reality and how much is nonsense. He has two fighter jets approach each other at a closing velocity of 45,000 feet per second (they would burn up in the atmosphere) and he calls that Mach 4. Uh, nope. Mach 4 is approximately 3,000 feet per second. And he says the British ship HMS Hood was sunk by a German sub in WWII. Uh, nope. It was sunk by the German battleship Bismark. And the ending pages of the novel were entirely opaque, meaning they made zero sense. Interesting story, but all in all sort of a waste of time.