The 40-Minute War Excerpt By Janet and Chris Morris

Title: The Forty-Minute War
Author: Janet Morris & Chris Morris
Genre: SciFi Time Travel Action, Techno-Thriller, Suspense

Claymore looked around. All of his people were staring at him: the Undersecretary for Agriculture, a pure hayseed with a stain on his chinos he was too terrified to hide; his Press Secretary, a walking mouth without a brain in his head but possessed of an autonomic gift for gab that had been crucial during the campaign; a woman speechwriter who sat quietly, chin up, with tears running down her rouged cheeks like gray worms; a Special Assistant who wasn’t particularly special and now had his knuckles jammed in his mouth; and two Secret Service men who watched everyone else with bleak eyes, ready for any sort of trouble.

But there would be no mutiny aboard Air Force One that spring day and the trouble their President was in wasn’t the sort that a pair of loyal, athletic men with sunglasses and wires in their ears could hope to fix.

If there had been one intelligence specialist, somebody from Defense or State, along to remind Claymore that the Iranian crazies had threatened to “roast the greatest Satan in his lair,” maybe Claymore wouldn’t have gone into the bathroom and blown his brains out.
But no such person was on board that day to avert World War Three by aborting the launch-and-arm sequence within the seven minutes required.

When the shot rang through Air Force One, however, the entire situation changed: the Vice President was informed and a cooler hand took the helm.

Unfortunately, even that wasn’t enough to avert all the consequences of what would be called, forever after, the Forty-Minute War.

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