Phantom in the Desert

by Damon Nomad

Overview

Tensions in the Persian Gulf have been building for decades, senior officials inside government know Iran is nuclear capable. The nightmare scenario, a nuclear strike in the Gulf escalates into a global nuclear conflict as the major nuclear powers are forced to take sides. Saudi Arabia and Iran are engaged in a slowly escalating regional cold war, with occasional hot flashes. The intelligence community assures congress and executive branch officials, Saudi Arabia does not have a nuclear weapons program, a Gulf conflict will not go nuclear.

A brilliant and dedicated investigator is quietly digging in old classified files, he suspects Saudi Arabia had a nuclear weapons program many years ago. He travels with a colleague to the Arabian Peninsula; did Saudi try to go nuclear and if so, did they keep it going? Only a month after they finish their investigation, the world is shocked by the first atmospheric detonation of a nuclear weapon in more than fifty years. Chaos follows in the aftermath, whose bomb was it?

A new president and his closest staff of national security advisers, assisted by the young investigator, work quickly to try and prevent things from spiraling out of control. These clever patriots respond as they search for a strategy to avoid a regional or global nuclear conflict. The intriguing opening act in the Nuclear Proliferation Trilogy.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940185839492
Publisher:	Speaking Volumes
Publication date:	07/22/2022
Series:	Nuclear Proliferation Trilogy , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	726 KB

About the Author

The world has changed a lot since growing up in middle class America, decades ago, watching Neil Armstrong walk on the moon in black and white. China was a far off and mysterious country, a long war in Vietnam and a cold war with the Eastern Soviet Block, no one had ever been to those places. Now I have been to these places and many others through Europe, the Middleast and Asia. Sometimes we forget the world has gotten better in many ways, advances in science and health care, technology at work and home. But there are new and difficult challenges, things seem more chaotic, more divided and faster paced. No one cannot predict the future, but we can be hopeful about it, we must. Damon writes novels aspiring to positive yet realistic future circumstances, with humble heroes who use their wits, not violence. Damon Nomad is the pen name for an author who has lived for many years in the middle-east and far east, bringing life experience, education and professional experience together in his writing.