Roshwald Moredecai (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Roshwald, Moredecai. Level 7. London: The New English Library Limited, 1962. First Ace Books edition. Paperback, Good. Illustrated card covers with shelfwear to edges, small patches of rubbing, reading creases along the spine and some age-discolouration to the white background on reverse. Binding strong, a little rolled forward. Pencilled ownership inscription 143pp. Pages lightly tanned, contents clean. Mordecai Marceli Roshwald (May 26, 1921 March 19, 2015) was an American academic and writer. His most famous work is Level 7 (1959), a post-apocalyptic science-fiction novel. It is told from the first-person perspective (a diary) of a modern soldier, X-127, living in the underground military complex Level 7, where he and several hundred others are expected to reside permanently. X-127 fulfills the role of 'push-button' offensive initiator of his nation's nuclear weapons capacity against an unspecified enemy. X-127 narrates life within a deep shelter before, during and after a nuclear war that wipes out the human species. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.