CODE DAY ZERO: USS Constitution's Escape from Armageddon

by Alan Ables

With nuclear war approaching, the President orders USS Constitution to escape. The Contingency of Government scenario is hopelessly romantic: hopes are that the icon of America's founding ideals may survive somewhere in the South Atlantic and return someday to inspire a post-apocalyptic world. On the eve of sailing, Old Ironside's sailing master embarks on an unexpected and fantastic voyage of his own. He is transported back to the early nineteenth-century. There he finds himself caught in the intrigues of espionage drawing European nations and the young United States of America into the War of 1812. In the past, he realizes he must do nothing to change the future, even though he is tempted. He survives battles at sea, captivity by Barbary pirates, political intrigues, desertion on a barren island and discovers renewed patriotism, romance and -- most of all -- himself. He returns in time to sail Constitution, America's oldest continuously commissioned warship, on a seemingly impossible mission which thwarts the last possible launch of a nuclear holocaust.

230 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 21, 2015

Reviews

[Patti Irwin · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is difficult to review a book when you know both the author and an editor. Alan, if you read this, my apologies, but the book was not actually my cup of tea. It reminded me a bit of The Outlander with the time travel issue and romance between time crossed lovers. But although I read The Outlander years before joining Goodreads, I would have also rated that with 3 stars as not being my cup of tea. For fans of military history and time travel adventure with spies and sea battles this might be an enjoyable book.