The Day After Tomorrow

Plot

'Washington destroyed completely before the government could escape. With Manhattan in ruins, that leaves no -'. There was a click as the television receiver was turned off. 'That's that, ' said the man near it, 'The United States is washed up.' This was the terrifying scenario in which, unbelievably, the whole of Asia - some four hundred million people - in grave danger of defeat by America which now consisted of just six men. In a brilliantly imaginative novel guaranteed to keep the reader on tenterhooks from beginning to end, Robert A. Heinlein, the doyen of science fiction writers, has truly excelled himself