Designated Targets

Zusatztext Praise for Weapons of Choice First book in the Axis of Time “[A] weapons-grade military techno-thriller . . . It’s like a Clive Cussler novel fell into a transporter beam with a Stephen Ambrose history! and they came out all fused together.” — Time “High-tech intrigue and suspense similar to the works of Tom Clancy.” — Library Journal Informationen zum Autor John Birmingham is the author of Emergence, Resistance, Ascendance, After America, Without Warning, Final Impact, Designated Targets, Weapons of Choice, and other novels, as well as Leviathan, which won the National Award for Nonfiction at Australia’s Adelaide Festival of the Arts, and the novella Stalin’s Hammer: Rome . He has written for The Sydney Morning Herald, Rolling Stone, Penthouse, Playboy, and numerous other magazines. He lives at the beach with his wife, daughter, son, and two cats. Klappentext It's World War II and the A-bomb is here to stay. The only question: Who's going to drop it first? The Battle of Midway was forever transformed by the devastating appearance of a U.S.-led naval task force from the twenty-first century. Since that day, state-of-the-art warships have prowled the Pacific, armed with the latest instruments of mass destruction, as the warring powers of 1942 scramble to be first to wield the weapons of tomorrow against their enemies. Russia and Germany form a deadly alliance, while Admiral Yamamoto moves to seize Hawaii and invade Australia. Suddenly it's a whole new war with unimaginable high-tech tools, and high-stakes inter-national betrayals from Tokyo to Washington to the Kremlin. As the world trembles on the brink of anni-hilation, Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Hitler, and Tojo confront extreme choices and a future rife with possi-bilities-all of them apocalyptic.TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI Lordy, thought the boy. It’s a miracle for sure. He was seven and a half years old—the man of the house, really, what with his daddy being away in Como, and he had never seen anything like the fearful wonder of the newly chiseled monument. here lies jesse garon presley. deeply beloved of his mother gladys, father vernon, and brother elvis. a soul so pure, the good lord could not bear to be apart from him. born jan. 8, 1935, taken unto god jan. 8, 1935. Despite the unseasonable heat of the evening, gooseflesh ran up his thin arms as he read the words again. Whippoorwills and crickets trilled their amazement in the sweet, warm air. With a pounding heart, the boy inched forward and muttered hoarsely, “Jesse, are you here?” The stone was cut from blindingly white marble that fairly glowed in the setting sun. The inscription had been inlaid with real gold—he was almost certain of that. He ran his fingers over the words and the cold, hard stone, as if afraid to discover that they weren’t real. It must have cost a king’s ransom . . . An enormous bunch of store-bought flowers had been placed upon a patch of freshly broken earth that still lay at the foot of the monument. Hundreds of tiny beads of water covered the petals and caught the last golden rays of daylight. He dropped down on his knees as if he were in church and stared at the impossible vision for many minutes, heedless of the dirt he was getting on his old dungarees. He remained virtually motionless until one hand reached out and his fingers again brushed the surface of the headstone. “Oh, my,” he whispered. Then Elvis Aaron Presley leapt to his feet and ran so fast that he raised a trail of dust as he sprinted down the gravel lane, away from the pauper’s section of the Priceville Cemetery, a-hollerin’ for his mama. “He’ll probably get his ass...

Product details

• Authors: John Birmingham
• Publisher: Del Rey
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.12.2006
• EAN: 9780345457158
• ISBN: 978-0-345-45715-8
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 176 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Axis of Time; Axis of Time; Random House Worlds
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy