The Armageddon Letters

The Armageddon Letters is a genre-busting work of history that takes readers behind the scenes during the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis. John Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro correspond with each other in the fog of the most dangerous crisis in recorded history. At the very brink of a world-destroying nuclear war, the three leaders make a last-ditch effort to avert the ultimate catastrophe. 

Kennedy writes to Khrushchev urgently as war seems about to break out. Khrushchev responds in kind. Castro writes to Khrushchev, urging Moscow to launch a nuclear war against the U.S. if it attacks and invades Cuba. Khrushchev, horrified by Castro's situation and request, suggests a way out, and Kennedy agrees. The U.S. pledges not to invade Cuba; the Soviet Union pledges to remove the offensive nuclear weapons. Castro reluctantly complies, though he feels Moscow has caved in and exposed Cuba to an imminent attack. 

Historically accurate, painstakingly researched over a quarter century, augmented with a transmedia program featuring animation, graphic art, blogs and podcasts, The Armageddon Letters is a virtual time machine that will leave readers breathless at the narrowness of humanity's escape, and with a determination never to let anything so dangerous ever happen again.