Brendan DuBois

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Brendan DuBois

Six Days

01 Apr 01

Resurrection Day

Books By Brendan DuBois

About the Author (Photo by Honi Werner)

Bibliography

First British Edition Little,Brown (2001)

Six Days
'What if the American economy collapsed, determined that the only way back to greatness was to stage a military coup?'
It is the very near future. The American economy is in tatters, the US has been the cause of war between India and Pakistan and has become the world's pariah state.
Drew, an ex-special forces operative, is settling into civilian life with his lover, Sheila. But on a weekend break in the Appalachians, they shelter from a storm in a defence bunker, a bunker Dew realises is highly secret. And when Drew and Sheila are captured, it is not by the state but a group planning a coup, and when he puts that knowledge together with what he had seen in the bunker he knows they intend to destroy far more of America than its central government ...

First British Edition Little,Brown (1999)

Resurrection Day
A chilling tale of intrigue and betrayal in the aftermath of an American nuclear war, and one of the most inventive novels of alternative history since Robert Harris’s Fatherland.
What if the Cuban Missile Crisis had become a full-blown atomic war? So begins Resurrection Day, a fascinating novel of tantalising, speculative history: The place is Boston. The year is 1972. It has been ten years since bombs fell over major cities in the United States and the Soviet Union. Russia is decimated. Omaha and San Diego are virtually destroyed. Washington D.C. lies beneath a giant crater lake. President Kennedy, Vice President Johnson, and their families have disappeared and are believed dead. "The best and brightest" of their administration are disgraced or in hiding. America is a shell of her former glory, a second-rate power dependent upon the kindness of Britain. Martial law rules.
Carl Landry, a young reporter with The Boston Globe, arrives at the scene of a murder. A friendless man, a veteran of the ‘62 war; has been shot in his bed, Landry begins to doubt he is the victim of a burglary gone wrong and suspects that the man has taken secrets to his grave. What was this man doing in the War Room of the White Mouse in October 1962? Who pushed the button that started the war? What is the legend and what is the lie? Who was the betrayer and who the betrayed? And could John F. Kennedy, by some miracle, still be alive?
DuBois has carefully interwoven fact and fiction to create a seamless story of multi-layered suspense- an unnerving story of what might have been.
‘More clever and resonant than Robert Harris’s Fatherland – and all the more scary because it was minutes away from happening for real. A book you’ll read three times and keep on your shelves forever’ Lee Child
‘Resurrection Day blew me away. It’s gripping and scary as hell. Don’t say I didn’t warn you’ William G. Tapply
‘A magnificent nightmare of what-might-have-been, with details so chillingly “real” that you wonder if the last thirty years actually happened as you remember them. This stunning novel truly delivers on the promise of its arresting title’ Jeremiah Healy

About The Author
Brendon DuBois is the author of the Lewis Cole mysteries and numerous short stories, which have earned him a Shamus Award and three Edgar Award nominations. He lives in Exeter, New Hampshire.

Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

Six Days (Little,Brown, 2001) Apr 01

Resurrection Day (Little,Brown, 1999)