The Great Game

by Stuart Slade

Twelve years after The Big One, SAC is an organization in crisis. Developing defenses have placed its bombers at risk. SAC is gambling on a new concept of bomber to restore its power, the B-58 Hustler. Outside America, Nazi Germany has been devastated by nuclear fire but the remnants of its armed forces still fight on in Russia, forming their own small states. Only one now remains, led by “Baron” Walter Model, who still has the world’s last SS division and a fearsome arsenal of poison gas. In the Pacific, the Empire of Japan is looking at its neighbors with greedy eyes. They are willing to acquire them by any means necessary. That will lead to a confrontation between the world’s greatest battleship and the world’s last battlecruiser. The Japanese also use the new doctrines of revolutionary warfare but do they understand what they are playing with? And another power is rising, one that may rival Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in malice……

Genres: Alternate History

288 pages, Paperback

First published December 30, 2007

About the author

Stuart Slade was Director of the Consulting Group at Forecast International in Newtown, CT, a company which provides Market Intelligence for the world's Aerospace/Defense industries. He was also the primary analyst for the company's Warships Forecast and Industrial & Marine Turbine Forecast. In other defense related areas, he wrote United States Strategic Bombers 1945-2012, Littoral Warfare: Ships and Systems, Navies in the Nuclear Age and Multinational Naval Operations. He was also the successful author of 14 published novels including an alternate history series that began with his 2007 novel The Big One. He died in December 2020.

Reviews

[Michael Ball · Rating 5 out of 5]

With this book Stuart Slade very cleverly winds up the fallout from world war two and sets the scene for SAC's War On Terror which is next on my must read list. After which I will probably start on The Salvation War series, although it is unfinished due to the sad demise of this wonderful author.