A group of American bombers armed with nuclear weapons is streaking past the fail-safe point, beyond recall, and no one knows why. Their destination—Moscow.In a bomb shelter beneath the White House, the calm young president turns to his Russian translator and says, "I think we are ready to talk to Premier Kruschchev." Not far away, in the War Room at the Pentagon, the secretary of defense and his aides watch with growing anxiety as the luminous blips crawl across a huge screen map. High over the Bering Strait in a large Vindicator bomber, a colonel stares in disbelief at the attack code number on his fail-safe box and wonders if it could possibly be a mistake.First published in 1962, when America was still reeling from the Cuban missile crisis, Fail-Safe reflects the apocalyptic attitude that pervaded society during the height of the Cold War, when disaster could have struck at any moment. As more countries develop nuclear capabilities and the potential for new enemies lurks on the horizon, Fail-Safe and its powerful issues continue to respond.

    Like a lot of people, he believed the President was ruining the country. Unlike anyone else, he had the power to do something about it, something unprecedented and terrifying. Colonel "Jiggs" Casey was the Marine who accidentally stumbled onto the plot. At first he refused to believe it; then he risked his life and career to inform the President. Jordan Lyman was President of the United States. By the time he was finally able to convince himself of the appalling truth, he had only seven days left to stop a brilliant, seemingly irresistible military plot to seize control of the government of the United States.Seven Days in May is a political thriller novel written by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II and published in 1962. It was made into a motion picture in 1964, with a screenplay by Rod Serling, directed by John Frankenheimer, and starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.The story is said to have been influenced by the right-wing anti-Communist political activities of General Edwin A. Walker after he resigned from the military. The author, Knebel, got the idea for the book after interviewing then-Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay.

    Then on her day off, she links up with two hiking companions who have inadvertently stumbledupon a scene of blood vengeance. And suddenly the life Nicola adores is in danger of coming to an abrupt, brutal, and terrifying end . .

    The Whole Truth2. The Shelter3. Showdown with Rance McGrew4. The Night of the Meek5. The Midnight Sea6. The Rip Van Winkle Caper

    Slang and expressions, like "buffalo sign" for hole donuts, "I taken out" for lit outta there hot-foot invisibly blend researched facts with tall tales, and hint at hard won practical life philosophies. With only one strong man to teach the orphan youth fine boxing techniques and back them up, 1880s West is a dangerous new land. "We work out our destinies subject to a lot of accident, incident, and whim. The men I'd seen die, died mostly because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time, and the kind of men they were mattered not in the least. The good seemed to go as easily as the bad, the brave as quickly as the cowards."At "Hanging Woman Creek" line shack, narrator Barney "Pronto" Pike 26 and colored Eddie Holt 28, chance met drunk tank pals, decide to pass the winter herding for and exchanging cowboy expertise for boxing, but don't see the last of shifty cell-mate Van Bokkelen. Bill Justin hires them to gather Bar J stock, but Rafter 88 brand overlays easy atop. After Pike guides pretty Ann to her brother Philo's new homestead, big cattle-man Roman Bohlen gathers a vigilante group to burn out the invading "nester" - honorable kindly folk, wealthy with "no need to steal cows (terms general in those days), or desire to." Violent fights with guns, fists, deaths of good people, and, most unusual for the West, leaving an innocent woman for dead. "Lando" Orlando Sackett, sweet-tongued "swapper" trader, believes his father Falcon, gone six years, is still alive, despite three Kurbishaw brothers of his late mother pursuing, offering a reward. "We have killed the wolf, now we shall kill the whelp". Neighbor Will Caffrey betrays his trust and steals his three sacks of gold coins, so at 12, the boy runs 30-odd rough miles to his family cabin, surviving alone in the Blue Ridge Appalachian Mountains. Now at 17 he heads west with Tinker, gypsy bedecked with gold earrings and fine sharp knives, who teaches him fighting like (real) Jem Mace. But Tinker searches the wrong pack for coffee, has a secret agenda concerning lost gold. More than a western, history, escapes, fights, chases, races, romances, this is suspense, pirate, dig for gold treasure yarn.