European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Books Whitley and fames Kunetka Are the authors of Warday explores horrors of nuclear attack by de Metzler staff writer when the space shuttle Enterprise deployed a warhead killer weapon in space the soviet Union retaliated by launching a limited nuclear strike on the United after the ensuing Warday has replaced and As reference Points of history the Day a Brief but dirty War crippled forever the superpowers arid realigned the balance of world in Warday by Whitley strieber and James paperback from Warner books for the rash of Post armageddon fiction produced in the United states has finally spawned something its a perfect blend of skills that creates this picture of the horrors of nuclear strieber artistry in surrealism and suspense the Wolf the the night Church and Black magic Are fleshed out with the technical expertise of Kunetka Oppenheimer the years of risk and City of fire los Alamos the atomic the Story is told by two journalists the using their real names and backgrounds in their own the words of people they interview and excerpts from government its firs person style makes it Tough to distance yourself from the authors seem to leave no stones unturned in describing the devastation in the United if they Are thin on any aspect of a nuclear its in the politics and events leading up to the their War is much simpler and quicker than that described in the extremely detailed the third world War and the untold Story by sir John but the books have vastly different while Hackett Book May make fascinating Reading for a military strategist or an ardent watcher of International it makes Tough Reading for a on the other someone Well versed in superpower tensions and modern War machinery May scoff at the Quick treatment Given the War and the description of events leading up to it simply As but Warday is More and its scenes of human economic and postwar prejudice evoke More emotion that Rad counts and casualty the first Volley of the War is a barrage of four warheads dropped from soviet communications satellites set to detonate above Pennsylvania and the warheads Emit an electromagnetic pulse of volts three times what the United states is prepared the resultant pulse renders communications stopping machinery and cars in the Road and causing military and civilian aircraft to drop from the most of the americas from the president to Are it would be Days before Many americans would know what had caused the Power most would never learn the extent of the Washington is a dead zone a blast virtually recon Only by avoid All no attempt warranted to follow illegal the former seat of government is a hardened sea of san Antonio is another dead the soviets targeted the air forces logistics and aircraft refitting facility at Kelly and other military targets in mexican immigrants pour across the Border to escape conditions in Mexico caused by the collapse of the United to reclaim Texas for their the state government has already Given up the Southern part of the state and is locked in sporadic Battle with Destructor lists people who dont want to see american society reorganized beyond the family unit in other parts of the train loads of orphaned children from the Northeast and Midwest Are turned away on their journey into the South by forces determined to keep out dust storms in the Midwest have stripped the once Fertile land of years of Good hundreds of thousands were killed by the Cincinnati millions More Are dying of cancer from and Post Warday America has a new word to strike worse than today cancer or aids those with incurable diseases or to High doses of radiation Are they cannot legally seek conventional medical such burdens on society and the elderly and mentally deficient Are strongly encouraged by the government to accept the patriotic thing to do under the the Federal now seated in los is virtually powerless against rising state but left almost untouched by the soviet is living the Good life of prewar and it is jealously guarded by a Border patrol and foreign police reminiscent of the foreigners Are sent packing Back to the dirty states they came but the most haunting images in the Book come from strieber description of his former new York his extraordinary ability to infuse a familiar City with surrealistic terror creates a chapter that could stand by itself in condemnation of the superpower though the authors have a definite message to the int beaten Over the head with a lot of the Reader is rather presented with the eyewitness accounts of the and the result is anything but Light it int meant to nor is it meant to be just scary fiction of the Stephen King for that Wolfen it is a Book peopled by cities made All the More real by what they used to be and what they Are not than what they it condemns today obsession with material gain and on personal and International not with pictures of opulence and hedonism run but with scenes of prejudice and there is no Happy if there is a message of Hope in it lies outside the books covers like a sinner entering Dantes once the world enters these pages it loses All Hope of August stripes Magazine 17