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Arc Light by Eric Harry. I'm a big fan of cold war/WW3 novels and this one fits the bill. Most books in the genre kind of dance around nukes but Arc Light doesn't hold back. The sense of dread i've gotten from this book has been awesome.
Don't think I have read any cold war novels, unless one of the Tom Clany novel I read in my youth was about it and either I didn't realize or have forgotten about it. I'll check it out, any other recommendations on the topic/genre?
Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy is probably the best known one. After Artemis Fowl which I re-read religiously as a teen, it's my most re-visited book.
The kind of original one is The Third World War by Sir General John Hackett, which is interesting but not really a thriller.
Then there's Team Yankee by Harold Coyle which is set in the world of Gen. Hackett's book but from a U.S. armored cavalry team commanders perspective.
Larry Bond's Cauldron differs from the usual NATO vs Warsaw Pact fare. Vortex and Red Phoenix by the same author are also great but not necessarily WW3 stories.
Thanks, will look them up!