The War Cloud Author:Thomas Greanias New York Times bestselling author Thomas Greanias delivers a soaring techno-thriller that 2016 news headlines warn is becoming more believable by the day?presidential candidates who don?t know what America?s nuclear triad is?an aging and increasingly forgotten arsenal of weapons still capable of destroying every major city on Earth?morale proble... more »ms as generals are replaced?cheating scandals among the young launch officers who hold the actual keys to Armageddon. Brad Marshall is a brilliant Air Force general and popular war hero. Too popular for his own good. The president has reassigned his potential rival to the shadows: command of a doomsday plane that officially doesn?t exist, flying endless circles over nuclear missiles in the heartland that nobody at the Pentagon believes will ever be launched. Then a catastrophic attack on Washington destroys the Pentagon and kills the President and the next fifteen Cabinet members in the line of succession. Now Marshall controls America?s nuclear arsenal, and only one woman?Deborah Sachs, the low-level Secretary of Education and new President-Designate?stands in his way. Originally a Hollywood ?big buck spec script? (Variety) almost too incredible to be believed, The War Cloud has spawned scores of imitators in film and television, and has prompted the White House, Congress and Pentagon to take another hard look at America?s ?Doomsday protocols? and what heroine Deborah Sachs represents: the invisible ?fourth leg? of the nuclear triad...leadership.« less