Warsaw Concerto (Timeline 10/27/62 Book 13)

In a world in which the swinging sixties never happened the Cold War has returned with a vengeance.

Four years on from the Cuban Missiles War the survivors are struggling to come to terms with the new world order in which the United States, seemingly all-powerful is still emerging from the horrors of the war on the Midwest.

East and West have never been so far apart, the aftermath of World War III is still, painfully unravelling. Cold War or not, hot war is never far away in the Mediterranean and much of France is a wasteland still under the cruel thumb of the Red Dawn-inspired fanatical regime in the south.

Nor has the end of fighting in the American Midwest made life in the White House a bed of roses. Old scandals and the flexing of old Cold War muscles in bomb-ruined Berlin do nothing to calm anxieties in Washington and England.

Is the World is at belatedly beginning to come to terms with the realities of the post-nuclear war era?

The war broke the old world order; now a new one must emerge but the adjustments required are painful and before they can happen, war and global realpolitik must run their brutal course.

Nothing is simple, while leaders wrestle with the tragedy of the age, at home they must look over their shoulders as the evils of the years before the cataclysm threaten to return to haunt them.

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Note from the author: the next instalment of the Timeline 10/27/62 saga, Book 14: EIGHT MILES HIGH is essentially the second part of a two hander, starting practically at the end of WARSAW CONCERTO. Previously, I have published 2-part stories six months apart – this time Book 14 will be released only two months after Book 13 (in October).