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The Incredible True Story of the Making of the Eve of Destruction
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. MAD—Mutually
Assured Destruction—is a fear every local lives with and
tries to ignore. Unfortunately that’s 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 family—which 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 isn’t
that his job? Laura’s 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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