![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As the only woman in the group, she has to deal with sexism and the attention of two men who are both in love with her. Katy and a handful of men are tasked with determining what the Russians are up to, their objective being to avert potential nuclear war. The first chapter is dramatic, tense, and nerve-wracking, so I was disappointed when the story shifted from the edge-of-your-seat landing of Russian spies witnessed by two teenagers who were not where they were supposed to be to the perspective of Katy Hume, an extremely smart woman who serves in the Intentions of the Enemy Group within the Atomic Energy Commission. Published in 1956, this Cold War era novel by the author of Alas, Babylon is about the run-up to a nuclear attack and the effort by a team of brainy people to prevent the destruction of the U.S. The story eventually became exciting enough that I had trouble putting it down, thank goodness, thus ending the slump (for good, I hope). Forbidden Area by Pat Frank is the only book I managed to finish during last week's mini-slump and it's a good one but it took me the entire week to get through it because I was struggling to even talk myself into reading. ![]()
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