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    Above and Beyond: John F. Kennedy and America's Most Dangerous Cold War Spy Mission
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    Above and Beyond: John F. Kennedy and America's Most Dangerous Cold War Spy Mission

    Written by Casey Sherman and Michael J. Tougias

    Narrated by Maxwell Hamilton

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    About this audiobook

    From the authors of the bestselling The Finest Hours comes the riveting, deeply human story of President John F. Kennedy and two U-2 pilots, Rudy Anderson and Chuck Maultsby, who risked their lives to save America during the Cuban Missile Crisis

    During the ominous two weeks of the Cold War's terrifying peak, two things saved humanity: the strategic wisdom of John F. Kennedy and the U-2 aerial spy program.

    On October 27, 1962, Kennedy, strained from back pain, sleeplessness, and days of impossible tension, was briefed about a missing spy plane. Its pilot, Chuck Maultsby, was on a surveillance mission over the North Pole, but had become disoriented and steered his plane into Soviet airspace. If detected, its presence there could be considered an act of war.

    As the president and his advisers wrestled with this information, more bad news came: another U-2 had gone missing, this one belonging to Rudy Anderson. His mission: to photograph missile sites over Cuba. For the president, any wrong move could turn the Cold War nuclear.

    Above and Beyond is the intimate, gripping account of the lives of these three war heroes, brought together on a day that changed history.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateApr 17, 2018
    ISBN9781549168628
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    Above and Beyond: John F. Kennedy and America's Most Dangerous Cold War Spy Mission
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    Casey Sherman

    Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge are one of the premier nonfiction writing teams telling stories out of Boston. Together, they co-wrote the definitive story of the Boston Marathon bombings in Boston Strong: A City’s Triumph Over Tragedy, which was adapted for the Mark Wahlberg film Patriots Day. They also wrote Ice Bucket Challenge: Pete Frates and the Fight against ALS, which is in development as a feature film, and the New York Times bestselling 12: The Inside Story of Tom Brady’s Fight for Redemption.  They live in Boston.

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