The Missile Crisis Author:Elie Abel The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: Fiction writers imagined it, history almost made it come true. Here, told with all the heart-stopping suspense of a thriller, is the minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day account of the most harrowing thirteen days in history - when John F. Kennedy played nuclear poker with Nikita Khrushchev with the fate of... more » the whole world at stake.« less