40 Minute War [Hardcover]

Janet Morris (Author), Chris Morris (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 23, 1984

Janet Ellen Morris (born May 25, 1946) is an American author of fiction and nonfiction, best known for her fantasy and science fiction and her authorship of a nonlethal weapons concept for the U.S. military.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 281 pages
• Publisher: Baen; First Edition edition (August 23, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671559109
• ISBN-13: 978-0671559106
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,117,576 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Best selling author Janet Morris began writing in 1976 and has since published more than 20 novels, many co-authored with her husband Chris Morris or others. She has contributed short fiction to the shared universe fantasy series Thieves World, in which she created the Sacred Band of Stepsons, a mythical unit of ancient fighters modeled on the Sacred Band of Thebes. She created, orchestrated, and edited the Bangsian fantasy series Heroes in Hell, writing stories for the series as well as co-writing the related novel, The Little Helliad, with Chris Morris. Most of her fiction work has been in the fantasy and science fiction genres, although she has also written historical and other novels. Morris has written, contributed to, or edited several book-length works of non-fiction, as well as papers and articles on nonlethal weapons, developmental military technology and other defense and national security topics.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Doomsday with a twist., July 12, 2005

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Magnumpi (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 40 Minute War (Hardcover)

The writing style is fine, the plot.... full of holes.

I would have liked to have read more about the events going on in the USA. INstead you follow a rat pack like of CIA preps around the middle east... They finally make it back to the USA, but after the "40 minute nuclear exchange" not much is left of this once great nation. This part of the book shines... and really pulls in - the aftermath.

The ending has a nice twist... but not enough to pull the book up from the long uneventful first half of the story.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Echoes of 9/11...before it hapened, June 4, 2010

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Bad Dog - See all my reviews

This review is from: The 40-Minute War (Paperback)

The 40- Minute War begins with a group of Arab terrorists taking over a jetliner...and it was written in 1984. The Baen hardcover got a rave review from Publisher's Weekly: "A sudden, satisfying ending." The Baen softcover has two different, graphic covers. Prophetic, but thank heavens, not too much so: in the story, the terrorists detonate a nuclear device over the White House. The science and intelligence tradecraft are first-rate; the science-fictional element is a desperate time-travel gambit to undo an event that triggers a 40-minute nuclear exchange between the Soviet Union and the United States. CIA and Mossad team up to un-happen an event that puts humanity's very survival in doubt through a chain-reaction of furious retaliations. A frightening book, full of wonderful characters who stand out bright against a dark and all-too-likely future. The authors come to grips with the ugly truths about post-nuclear survival, a background against which the heroism of the main characters is all humanity has to rely upon. Written by defense community professionals, this book takes you deep inside the minds of men and women who deal on a regular basis with protecting the world against threats to civilization. Not for the squeamish.