{"product_id":"spithead-9781468142860","title":"Spithead","description":"The year is 1950 in a parallel universe. Because the British Navy sailed (rather than remained at anchor) out of Spithead Roadstead on a crucial morning in July 1914, both World War I and II never happened. But ever since, Europe, Asia, and the US have teetered on the brink of conflict. Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, sends a Washington desk man, an agent posing as an archaeological writer, to England to uncover what the Germans (and the Japanese, the Austro-Hungarians, and the Russians) are planning. Thus begins this speculative tale of spies and adventure and chase - into the British Museum, the Minoan palaces on Crete, and climaxing in a mad pursuit through the streets of Geneva. How different is the world for having been at \"peace\"? Can an idea man and his beautiful assistant ferret out a dread secret weapon and prevent a world conflagration? SPITHEAD occurs in a parallel world of that's slightly out of focus: Reo is a major car manufacturer; Robert A. Taft is president; FDR is the Secretary of the Navy; the B-17 bomber is just into production; TV sets have only come onto the market months before; a Basque republic is newly formed on the Iberian peninsula; Austria-Hungary is a tottering empire propped up by the German kaiser; Trotsky has been in power since the Russian revolution of 1922; Italian fascism, created by a worldwide depression in 1922, is weakly led by its second dictator, Ciano; and a German splinter fascist group, the Koda, is based in Munich and led by Franz Brockdorff. Only the Japanese Empire has shown a similar historical evolution to the one in our universe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Les Cole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/14\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.58d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781468142860\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Createspace Independent Publishing Platform","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45096904786035,"sku":"9781468142860","price":25.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_7e477ef0-a0af-4eed-bece-9d1db91d5d27.jpg?v=1781289785","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/spithead-9781468142860","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}