Enterprise

November 1961

By: James Philip

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

ENTERPRISE is the second book in the COUNTDOWN TO WAR series.

It is November 1961 and the doomsday clock is ticking.

In Berlin the tanks have pulled back from one Cold War flashpoint, Checkpoint Charlie but Thor and Jupiter medium-range ballistic missiles are still sitting on, or will soon be operational in England, Italy and Turkey and Soviet Leader Nikita Khruschev is still liberally declaiming threats to rain Armageddon upon the USSR’s foes.

In Washington DC the Kennedy Administration is preoccupied with Cuba, troubles in the deep South, and seemingly falling behind in the space race; it has problems enough at home and the mid-terms are already on the not so distant horizon. And besides, viewed from Capitol Hill, the frontline of the Cold War is an awfully long way away.

Not so for the RAF men manning the V-bombers and the Thor missile based in Eastern England who know that in the event of war four minutes is the best warning they are likely to get!

If only the world had known it, the COUNTDOWN TO WAR has reached eleven minutes to midnight…

For my readers who prefer to read the Timeline 10/27/62 books in the chronological order of the overall narrative arc ENTERPRISE = 2.