War Day

The unthinkable happened five years ago. Now two writers have set out to find what's left of America. New York, Washington DC, San Antonio, parts of the Central Western states are gone. Famine, epidemics, border wars radiation diseases have devastated the countryside in between. It was a 'limited' nuclear war, just a 36-minute exchange of missiles that abruptly ended when the superpowers' communication systems broke down. But Warday destroyed much of civilization. Whitley Strieber James Kunetka, old friends, take a dangerous odyssey across the former USA, sometimes hopeful that a new, peaceful world can be built over the old, sometimes despairing over the immense losses embittered people they meet. In an eerie blend of fact imagination, Strieber (author of The Wolfen The Hunger) Kunetka (author of City of Fire: Los Alamos The Atomic Age, 1943-1945 Oppenheimer: The Years of Risk) cut thru the doublespeak of military bureaucracy the rhetoric of the 1980's peace movement to portray America after Warday.