When the newest member of Eric Peterkin’s London club is found stabbed to death, Eric throws himself into a quest for the truth: missing nurses, morphine addiction, shell shock. The Great War is over, but the memories remain...
Foreign terrorists smuggle several obsolete Soviet hydrogen bombs into Texas in a daring nuclear-fallout assault on American oil fields. Grit-hardened west Texas roughnecks counter the attack with sobering global reverberation.