Sleeping Dogs : a Novel
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Sleeping Dogs : a Novel
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The work Sleeping Dogs : a Novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- Sleeping Dogs : a Novel
- Title remainder
- a Novel
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- The Pentagon has a dirty, little secret they've been keeping quiet for forty years. During the Cold War, a number of live H-bombs were jettisoned and lost around the country as a result of mishaps and mid-air collisions. A disgraced former Pentagon weapons expert, Howie Collyer, who blew the whistle on the unrecovered H-bombs and lost his job as a result, learns from a nurse in a VA hospital that one of her patients has vague recollections of being the pilot on a B-52 plane that jettisoned a nuke. Collyer teams up with the nurse to kidnap the man from the hospital in the hopes he w
- Most people don't realize that eleven unrecovered nuclear weapons are scattered around the U.S. from mid-air mishaps and crashes when B-52s were in the air 24-7 during the Cold War. Howie Collyer, a disgraced Pentagon whistleblower, discovers an old pilot who might know a nuke's location. Kidnapping the pilot, he takes him on a search for the missing bomb, followed by al-Qaeda and the Pentagon. Who's going to get to the bomb first? --Collyer who will expose the threat lost nukes pose? The Pentagon, intent on continuing the coverup? Or the al-Qaeda suicide driver out to detonate the bomb, incinerating millions and making the Eastern Seaboard uninhabitable for centuries?
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- Dewey number
- 813.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3622.A539
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
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