Operation Damocles - Softcover

Fellows, Oscar L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671577719 ISBN 13: 9780671577711

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1998

Synopsis

The fate of the earth hangs in the balance in a dispute involving a dutiful spy, a newscaster with a price on her head, a rascal scientist, a grouchy former CIA agent, a murderous idealist, and a treasonous president. Original.

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Dykes face showed surprise, doubt. "You mean, the Stanford experiment weighs the same?" "To the kilo," Castor replied. "Isn’t that just the weight shown on the manifest?" "No, Joe, the packing crew weighs all payload before stowing it for launch. That is the mass the crew chief logged at the time the package was loaded." Dykes simply stared for a moment, then said, "A chill just went up my spine. It’s beginning to sound like this was a very deliberate, well-planned substitution. The odds of two random packages having exactly the same weight and dimensions are astronomical." Dykes thought a moment. "I’m going to call Clarence Patterson." "Don’t you think we should investigate a little more before getting headquarters in a tizzy?" asked Castor. "It could just be a simple mistake." Dykes stopped pacing and faced Castor. "How? Think about it, Charlie. How could it possibly be just a simple mistake?" Dykes ticked off points on his fingers. "A module the exact size and weight of a legitimate package gets substituted on a shuttle flight. The module has the correct number stenciled on it. It must have even had an inspection tag on it, now that I think about it, otherwise the packing crew wouldn’t have loaded it. The launch manifest lists the package for that flight, on that date, when the real module is not scheduled to go for another nine days. The mission manifest, which is a duplicate copy of the launch manifest, is generated by the same person at the same time, yet the copy Kennedy has is different from what we have. The real module wasn’t even in Inspection then, it was in the warehouse. The warehouse didn’t pull it, Inspection didn’t inspect it, no other package is missing and we can’t find it in orbit, but we sure as hell put something up there." Realization dawned in Castor’s eyes, and his face blanched, "You’re thinking some kind of terrorism, aren’t you? My God, Joe! What could it be?" SYNOPSIS "Operation Damocles" is a tightly written novel about a se! cond American revolution--a patriotic conspiracy to overthrow an international underworld criminal cartel that has infiltrated the governments of Europe and the United States. It’s about politics and power, the cause of all revolutions, and about the psychological baggage that is the common legacy of man. What sets it apart from the thousands of past revolutions in history, is the global scope granted by the technology of our times, and the unprecedented consequences to humanity--the possible fall of civilization.

Set in contemporary times, it is built around political issues that are currently of high concern to many Americans, such as gun control, constitutional freedoms, Wall Street’s mega-mergers and the global political agenda of the "New World Order". Targeted at an intelligent audience, it crosses category and genre boundaries into the same audiences that liked such books and films as Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, Mission Impossible, The Hunt for Red October, The Firm, Day of the Condor, Absence of Remorse and Clint Eastwood’s recent release, Absolute Power. Because of the mixture of espionage, political corruption and space warfare, it has shown broad-based appeal to readers and reviewers who like mainstream, espionage, techno-thrillers and science fiction. For those who like military action and political intrigue, it’s a tense, fast-paced and accurate story. Edge of the seat stuff. The kind of story that you can't put down.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0671577719
• ISBN 13: 9780671577711
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 328