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State scarlet

David Aaron

1987351 pagesabout 5–8 hours
1987
first published
  • 1987Putnam · 351 pages · ENGISBN 9780399132438
  • 1988G.K. Hall · 515 pages · ENGISBN 9780816144716

When a caller tells the White House he has stolen a U.S. nuclear device and will set it off in a major European city, nobody panics. The president sees it as a chance to check the security of the nuclear weapons system; the National Security Advisor sees it as a chance to go one-up in his bureaucratic feuds- it's a useful prank call.

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