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THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE MAKING OF THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION
By: Amy Brashear
Soho Teen
November 2018
On Sale: November 13, 2018
312 pages
ISBN: 1616959037
EAN: 9781616959036
Kindle: B079WL85VX
Hardcover / e-Book
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Young Adult Suspense
Arkansas, 1984: The town of Griffin Flat is known for almost nothing other than its nuclear missile silos. MADβMutually Assured Destructionβis a fear every local lives with and tries to ignore. Unfortunately thatβs impossible now that film moguls have picked Griffin Flat as the location for a new nuclear holocaust movie, aptly titled The Eve of Destruction. When sixteen-year-old Laura Ratliff wins a walk-on role (with a plus-one!) thanks to a radio call-in contest, she is more relieved than excited. Mingling with Hollywood stars on the set of a phony nuclear war is a perfect distraction from being the only child in her real nuclear familyβwhich has also been annihilated. Her parents are divorced, and her mother has recently remarried. Her father, an officer in the Strategic Air Command, is absent . . . except when he phones at odd hours to hint at an impending catastrophe. But isnβt that his job? Lauraβs only real friend is her new stepbrother, Terrence. She picks him as her plus-one for the film shoot, enraging her fair-weather friends. But their anger is nothing compared to what happens on set after the scripted nuclear explosion. Because nobody seems to know if a real nuclear bomb has detonated or not.
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