WWIII: A Novel

ISBN: 0345470419

Author: Slater, Ian

Condition: New

From Japan to Malaysia, the Pacific Rim is ablaze-in a hell called . . . WORLD WAR IIISuperior to the Tom Clancy genre, with characters that came alive . . . and the military aspect far more realistic.-The SpectatorIn the Pacific-Off Koreas east coast, 185 miles south of the DMZ, six Russian-made TU-22M Backfires come in low, traveling at Mach .9. Each carries two seven-hundred-pound cluster bombs, three one-thousand-pound iron or high-explosive bombs, ten one-thousand-pound concrete-piercing bombs, and fifty two-hundred-pound FAEs (fuel air explosives, closely related to Napalm).In Europe-Twenty Soviet Warsaw Pact infantry divisions and four thousand tanks begin to move. They are preceded by hundreds of strike aircraft: SU-24/Fencers for ground support and MiG-29s with air-to-air Alamo and antiradiation, antiradar air-to-surface missiles, with Russian NR-30 mm tank-destroying cannon. All are pointed toward the Fulda Gap.So it begins . . .