The Cuban Missile Crisis was a hoax. In October, 1962, idealistic George Blair is ready to start his career as a policeman, engaged to a social-climbing harpy who has his future mapped out, when the Cuban Missile Crisis intervenes, and throws George into an undercover assignment to derail a revolt of the U.S. military on the plains of Texas. The government hopes to quash this very real nuclear threat, and at the same time conceal it from the public by manufacturing -- with help from the Russians -- the trouble with Cuba. Playing his undercover role, George goes under the tutelage of a drunken TV weatherman, and discovers that the revolt is, itself, a smoke screen created to hide an impending catastrophe that will destroy not just America, but the entire planet. The threat can only be vanquished by George, and only if he falls in love with the most beautiful woman in Texas and, at the same time, ensures that the weatherman gets what is coming to him.
About the Author: About the Author... Bull Marquette is the penname for a Texas native who published his first novel, THE FIFTH PLANE, with Brave New Genre Books in 2008. This was followed in 2009 by his collection of short stories, GOT 8 IF YOU WANT 'EM. Bull began his writing career as an ad and book jacket writer for Word Books, a religious book publisher, where he was privileged to interview notables like Jeb Magruder - refugee from President Nixon's Watergate scandal, and 1960s hoodlum-turned-civil rights activist Eldridge Cleaver, as well as authors who had come back from the dead. He worked as an ad agency copywriter, convenience store clerk, high school teacher, construction worker, TV weatherman, radio announcer, apprentice cook under a world-class chef, waiter, bread delivery man, speech writer for a state legislator, branch manager for a national stock brokerage firm and financial advisor. Bull moved to California in 1982 to study parapsychology in the unique masters program at JFK University. Bull was business editor and columnist for the short-lived FRESNO WEEKLY newspaper, and he co-hosted the nationally syndicated WEBMASTER RADIO SHOW, an interview show that featured the giants of the high tech world during the climax of the Dot-Com bubble, from February 2000 to November 2001. He is currently a financial advisor, a columnist for THE FRESNO BEE, and a sometimes announcer for KVPR - national public radio in Fresno. A paranormal and "alternate history" buff, Bull is working on more short stories and novels, as well as a non-fiction work on the Unified Field Theory in physics.