A little over twenty months have passed since the cataclysm of October 1962.It is Independence Day in Philadelphia, the temporary capital of the United States.Metaphorically and soon, it will be a minute before midnight in Philadelphia on 4th July 1964 in a World stumbling inexorably towards a second, even more catastrophic nuclear war.After the murderous fighting in the Persian Gulf the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom have stumbled to the edge of the thermonuclear abyss; all that remains is to discover who will blink first?Author's note to since the publication of 'Operation Anadyr' in October 2014, the Timeline 10 27 62 series has branched into and explored a number of additional narrative arcs and themes, and in several standalone stories.For my readers who prefer to read the Timeline 10 27 62 books in the chronological order of the overall narrative arc ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER = 18.