Just a reminder my Kindle book HOT STATUS (the prequel to MAD MINUTE) will be free from now until midnight Sunday, Pacific Daylight Time (I think.) A single-click on the image of the cover (left-hand sidebar, second book down) should take you right to Amazon.
So rush over there and grab a copy before they're all gone!
Actually, I don't think that's how it works...
HOT STATUS is a kind of techno-thriller involving a now defunct air defense missile system called Nike Hercules. I worked as a radar mechanic at one of the many US sites in the late 60s. (Told you it was defunct.) The site was out on Sandy Hook, New Jersey, that appendix-shaped spit of sand that's aimed at the heart of Manhattan.
The sites in Continental US were all dismantled in the early 1970s, about the time the World Trade Center buildings were going up. If the 9/11 attacks had taken place thirty years earlier, could we have shot down at least one of those planes? I don't know for sure, but the guy headed for the South Tower passed over a plethora of air defense sites in Northern New Jersey on his way to the target.
And I have to tell you, we routinely checked our radars by locking up on commercial airliners...
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