Slowly, the World Burns, While I Help to Fan the Flames — Grant Patterson

In 1962, a miscalculation by the USSR provokes a strong response from the USA. But in this world, the world that Major Harrison Mowbray, USAF lives in, the Cuban Missile Crisis does not end peacefully. His B-52 gets the go-code, unleashing nine years of war that erases human life from the surface and forces men to live like rats, underground, in giant caverns called cathedrals.In 1971, Mowbray, a survivor of Soviet POW camps, commands a Warwagon train, launching ICBMs against the Soviets. His only bastion against despair is the hope that he will one day see his missing daughter again. Mowbray receives a curious summons to examine a Soviet probe, that has landed in Canada with a message of peace, addressed only to him.Thus begins a cross-country journey across a divided continent, on the brink of revolution, with a culmination in the most unimaginable place. Along the way, Mowbray will meet historical figures whose lives have taken very different paths in this strange turn of history.Traitor or patriot? Maybe both? Harrison Mowbray will find out which he is, and if he really is the only man who can put out the flames.