The Brink

by Rick Setlowe

Arthur Fields Books, 1976, [First Edition], ISBN 0525630147, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges, corners and covers, ex-lib with stickers and sticker residue to endpapers, some crumpling to introductory pages, tape residue on covers, dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing, and creasing, sticker to spine (see photographs)

“August 28, 1958 – Lieutenant junior grade Charly Rohr, the All-American Boy, is hauled wham-bam out of an officers’ whorehouse in Japan to launch World War Three.  The United States and Red China have clashed head-on over two barren, obscure little islands in the Taiwan Straits named Quemoy and Matsu.
So begins The Brink, the story of a Navy attack pilot and his squadron – young men poised to H-bomb China and driven to the breaking point – and beyond – by an insane commander.  It is a knife-edged drama of jet-flying from storm-tossed carriers at sea and of men and a nation driven to their breaking point.”