Emmie and roger
Subtitle: a thermonuclear romance
By: by Richard S. Greeley
Publisher: Dorrance Pub Co.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9781434969804; 9781480900493
Subjects: Romance; Man-woman relationships; Fiction; Nuclear weapons; Testing
Description: HISTORICAL FICTION. A couple finds love in this explosive story of thermonuclear testing and the Cuban Missile Crisis, based on historical accounts and the author's experiences. When British math whiz Emmie Trowbridge finds herself teaching at an island school amid the Pacific Ocean, she doesn't expect to meet Roger Malcolm, the American designer of a nuclear bomb detection system. But it's love at first sight for the pair, and they go on to help save the world from sure disaster.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: ch. One Emmie's Arrival; title: ch. Two Roger's Arrival; title: ch. Three Emmie's World War II with Professor Chebandrov; title: ch. Four Roger's World War II and the Korean War; title: ch. Five Emmie's `First' at Girton; title: ch. Six Roger Joins the Cold War; title: ch. Seven Emmie Meets Roger; title: -The Thermonuclear Weapons Tests Begin; title: ch. Eight Palmyra to Christmas: Roger and Emmie; title: ch. Nine A Runaway Child; title: ch. Ten Shot Alma; title: ch. Eleven Recuperation; title: ch. Twelve The Nuclear Detection System (NUDETS) Gets Accelerated; title: ch. Thirteen The Real Wedding and a [Short] Honeymoon; title: ch. Fourteen Emmie and Roger Brief the Secretary of Defense; title: ch. Fifteen The Cuban Missile Crisis.