Dangerous Legacy

by Gordon Ryan

In the light of reduced world military tension, the United States and New Zealand move to reinstate the ANZUS Agreement and allow US Navy visits. But they inadvertently encounter a nuclear plot initiated decades ago by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. If successful, tens of thousands of people will die and the U.S. will lose the trust of its allies. A dynamic, plot driven thriller.

379 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1994

About the author

Passed away November 14th, 2012. He was 69.

Gordon Ryan was a writer with a varied history. He lived and worked in six foreign nations and a dozen or more states, including Alaska. He served in the 1st Recon Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps in the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and in the Air Force in Thailand during the Vietnam War. He also served as a member of the American Embassy staff in Dublin, Ireland, during the violent seventies. His first published novel, Dangerous Legacy, was released in 1994 and he published ten more over the intervening years with the three Pug Connor novels, the last one released in early 2011.

Reviews

[Susan]

I really enjoyed reading this book.

[Lauren]

This story begins in the 1960's when a few Russian leaders decide to hide some nuclear weapons to be ready to use whenever they felt they had opportunity to cause an "accident". All but one person in on it dies before they can be used. After the Gulf War in 1991 the last person decides that this is the best time to use the weapons. He sells them to a leader in Saudi Arabia who use the first to make it look like the US had a nuclear accident near New Zealand which causes problems with trust from other nations This forces the US to pull out of the Gulf and allows this leader to attack Kuwait again. The US tracks down the truth and finds the other weapons before they can be used again. This book got confusing at times. It bounced around between too many characters and locations. I liked the story line about the terrorists and nuclear weapons, but didn't feel like the LDS conversations/storyline really fit in to the story.

[Elise]

Not a book I could get into.