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Something has gone wrong. A group of American bombers armed with nuclear weapons is streaking past the fail-safe point, beyond recall, and no one knows why. Their destination -- Moscow.
In a bomb shelter beneath the White House, the calm young president turns to his Russian translator and says, "I think we are ready to talk to Premier Kruschchev." Not far away, in the War Room at the Pentagon, the secretary of defense and his aides watch with growing anxiety as the luminous blips crawl across a huge screen map. High over the Bering Strait in a large Vindicator bomber, a colonel stares in disbelief at the attack code number on his fail-safe box and wonders if it could possibly be a mistake.
First published in 1962, when America was still reeling from the Cuban missle crisis, Fail-Safe reflects the apocalyptic attitude that pervaded society during the height of the Cold War, when disaster could have struck at any moment. As more countries develop nuclear capabilities and the potential for new enemies lurks on the horizon, Fail-Safe and its powerful issues continue to respond.
- Sales Rank: #170292 in Books
- Color: Black
- Brand: Burdick, Eugene/ Wheeler, Harvey
- Model: 1739505
- Published on: 1999-07-10
- Released on: 1999-07-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x .72" w x 5.50" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
About the Author
Eugene Burdick (1918-1965) taught at the University of California at Berkely and was chairman of the World Affairs Council in San Francisco. Among his many books is The Ugly American, the internationally famous novel written with Bill Lederer.
Harvey Wheeler has been a professor of political philosophy at several institutions, including Harvard and Johns Hopkins. He is the author of several books, including Educare and The Rise of the Elders, a novel. He currently lives in Southern California.
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A low-flying eagle
By Elizabeth A. Root
Just to let you know where I'm coming from,, I'm not a big fan of hardboiled detectives, but a friend really wanted me to read these, They were at least o.k., sometimes even pretty good, but after reading this one , I told him never to bring me a Spencer novel again. He tried, but I handed it back to him. He claimed the characters went back to how they were before, but I can't wash this one out of my mind.
One thing that I demand in a book is that the author persuade me to accept the characters at his/her evaluation of them; otherwise the book doesn't work. I have been told that this is childish, but it is not only that I have to spend hours with these people, but that there is a serious dissonance if the author wants me to be holding my breath worrying about the protagonist, and I am in fact thinking that I'd like the antagonist to gut-shoot him.
I got the feeling that this was supposed to be a "major" novel; it's a thriller rather than a detective story. I thought it was too much of too much; all it needed for the kitchen sink to fall on someone's head. With a little rewrite, it could be a parody of the thriller. The characters were much worse than the strained plot. We have been watching Susan's moral compass deteriorate in the last couple of books -- it's completely out of whack here. She had taken up with a very wealthy, very controlling man out in California. Now she wants to leave, but she is scared, so she calls Hawk to rescue her, and in the melee he ends up in prison, possibly looking at a life sentence. So now Spenser is called upon to rescue them both.
It is at this point that Parker seems to show that he realizes that the reader might not have the best opinion of Susan, because when the other characters find out that Spenser is going to see Susan, they keep remarking on what a "special" person she is. Very unsubtle, and very bad writing. If we can't decide that Susan is a good person from her thoughts and actions without being bashed over the head with it, it seems clear that even the author realizes that he might have painted himself into a corner. The adjective that comes to mind to describe Spenser is a little rude, so let's just say that he is pretty thoroughly emasculated by his attachment Susan, even if still macho in other regards. In fact, perhaps in an effort to bolster Spenser's flabby character, the title is taken from this quote by Herman Melville:
"... and there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he forever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than the other birds upon the plain, even though they soar."
I think this eagle got lost and drowned in the sea.
Anyway, after busting the slave labor out of the camp where Susan's latest ex is holding them prisoner, and talking to his terrorized ex-wife, and being pursued all over the country by violent men, there comes a crucial moment when it would really help if Susan gave Spenser and Hawk her ex's phone number. But in another display of inverted morality, Susan decides that she had a "real" relationship with the man who tried to hold her prisoner, got Hawk thrown in jail when he tried to help her, and is now trying to kill at least Spenser and Hawk, and maybe her, too, and tells them that it would be dishonorable for her do something that would help them against her violent ex. And the totally emasculated Spenser accepts that. What really destroys the already strained credibility, is that Hawk accepts it. Maybe he can't slap her around with Spenser there, but he can at least go through her purse or at least be disgusted that while she expects him and Spenser to get her out of a mess of her own making, she doesn't feel that it would be appropriate for her to be helpful.
Pathetic.
By the end of the book, I felt that Spenser had lost the moral standing that was supposed to justify illegal and semi-legal actions.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Not the Spenser we know.
By kikeo58
Changed the formula. Blurred Spenser with Everett Hitch. Throw in some 007 work. Robert Parker thought women were trash. Except for Susan Silverman. Then this book made Susan leave Spenser for a rich gun dealer. Spenser and Hawk run around killing people all over the country. Not the Spenser we know. Not Susan either. Susan comes back. But the plot is ludicrous. Sigh. I guess Parker got tired of Spenser. Forget this book and go read Small Vices.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
A precautionary tale
By Spenser Calderin
What would happen if a computer error set a nuclear war in motion? This book explores that question and also the question of whether or not technology has supplanted us. Given that this book is several decades old, it is interesting to see the conclusions the author reached. It is also a pretty good read. Suspenseful and even despite the topic enjoyable. Why 3 stars? Because I disagree with the author...and that is perhaps unfair. Read it anyway.
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