About Twenty of Two The Infamous They – Five Nuclear Wars You Can Win by Roland Hughes:
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War Rages in Ukraine. Another has been started, some might say continued, in the Middle East. The Doomsday Clock is now 85 seconds to midnight. Old Timer is the only one still alive that knows the real time on that clock is 26 minutes to midnight. When he was young he made certain of it. Assassins aren’t supposed to live into their sixties. Perhaps he lived so long because he is more than an assassin?
You have to be able to compartmentalize reality when you walk in the darkness that surrounds us all. Holier than thou people decry people like him as horrible monsters, or worse. Odd since they can sit next to him in a diner and have a pleasant conversation. Odder still knowing they are usually the first ones to send him into the dark to do what he does. Because of him you never heard about the weapons grade whooping cough that was immune to all known treatments. There are just a lot of theories about how a building became a charred hole in the ground one day.
In the 1990s IT geeks could travel the country, world really, and just like Asian tourists, they were ignored. Nobody questioned their presence or gave them a second thought. You could hide in plain sight if you could code.
Deep into the Ukraine war Putin woke up one morning and found out he’d been screwed. Doesn’t know who. Doesn’t know how. Just has that walking funny feeling that it happened.
Old Timer doesn’t know it yet, but our story starts there. Hear his confession and the stories of his life as he takes what could be his final walk in the darkness.
When people pass judgment they deny polar opposite realities exist at the same time in the same space. Polio is viewed as an evil deadly scourge yet today we use it to kill cancer cells. Look it up. Bleach can both kill a human and sterilize a toilet. Today’s boogeyman is who you send to kill tomorrow’s monster.
In January of 1992 Old Timer was that boogeyman. The story simply couldn’t be told until now.
What goes up doesn’t always come down.
Slava Ukraini! Heroiam slava!
bon appétit
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Author Bio:
Roland Hughes is the president of Logikal Solutions, a business applications consulting firm specializing in OpenVMS platforms and embedded systems development for medical devices. Hughes serves as a lead consultant with roughly four decades of experience using computers and operating systems. With a degree in Computer Information Systems, the author’s experience is focused on systems across a variety of diverse industries including heavy equipment manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, stock exchanges, tax accounting, and hardware value-added resellers, to name a few. Working throughout these industries has strengthened the author’s unique skill set and given him a broad perspective on the role and value of technology in industry.
When he is not consulting or writing geek books for his award winningThe Minimum You Need to Know technical book series or helping out on the family farm, he writes novels and blog posts.