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by Michael Shaara

There were no air raid sirens. No missiles or bombs. No mushroom clouds. No panic in the streets. The end, when it came, was like nothing we ever expected.First hit was a small Gulf Coast city. Seventy thousand dead, just like that. Then Rome. Flags toppled and nations crumbled, as people began dying by the millions. Soon there would be no one left alive, except for the lucky few who were genetically immune.One man-pilot Nick Tesla-knew what was happening. He had survived and escaped the first Zone of Death. The army has sent him back in, determined to stop the destruction of humanity.

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