Daughter of Pallas — John Stuart Goldenberg

The Titan Pallas and the Sea Nymph Styx were lovers and had a number of daughters. Bad news all. But the badest of them all. Famed for speed, victory, war and deadliness...NIKE! It is the frostiest, most volatile period of the Cold War. Fingers ready at the switches in Moscow and Washington. America took pride and comfort in the protection they knew lie in their devastating technology. What they didn't know, and would not know for forty years...Nuclear tipped Nike missiles were quite literally staged in the heart of their largest cities. Death would rain down. But from whom? The Soviets? Or the Americans? Daughter of Pallas is an historical novel honoring the men charged with a terrifying responsibility.