Phyllis
The receipt of a message sent simultaneously by two physicists -- one an American, the other a Russian -- to their respective governments threatened the destruction of New York and Moscow unless the two governments agreed to ban nuclear weapons. The men had met at an international conference and decided that if the two great powers could not agree to disarm, they would take matters into their own hands. Did they really have two atom bombs? It might all be a hoax, but the chance is too great to take and Professor Horton must be found.
 Tom Clancy, a former physicist now on the police force, is assigned to fill Horton's place at the university from which Horton had disappeared. One of his main objectives is to win the confidence of Phyllis Goldmark, a colleague and friend of Horton, an assignment that turns out to have its compensations.
As the suspense mounts and the day of the threatened bombing draws closer, Clancy and Phyllis are in constant danger, searching the huge city for a man who had left remarkably few clues.
E.V. Cunningham has written a hardhitting, fast moving novel that is suspense at its very best. Its philosophical overtones and the depth of its characterizations make it an adventure in excitement which is both timely and thoughtful.
from the dust jacket of the 1962 Doubleday first edition
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