Eugene Burdick

The rise and near-success of Mike Freesmith, who tries to gain control of California politics by exploiting the fears and hatreds of voting groups.

This book is a fictionally written depiction of America^s failed foreign policy, tactics and blunders in a country depicted as an area similar to Viet Nam. The journalist author was entrenched in the region for several years as the French tried, without success, to exploit the area. Shortly thereafter the U.S. stepped in and, with typical American (monkeys in a watch shop fashion) enthusiasm, started the decimation of a people and their country. The story follows an American Ambassador as he wheels and deals his way into the hearts and pockets of the local elite whilst paying little notice to the pulse of a disgruntled rural populace allowing the Soviets to step in and sew the seeds of war.

A novel of the Communist threat and Washington politics in Southeast Asia. In the ancient kingdom of Sarkhan, Prince Lin, scholar and neutralist will ascend to the 2,500-year-old throne. The control of a whole subcontinent is at stake as the Eastern and Western continents stand by watching the developing pattern of Communist subversion.

An ex Resistance worker and the American flier she rescued meet again in postwar Paris.

The question of accidental war is examined in this novel about American planes which fly past the point of recall to drop nuclear bombs on Moscow.