Novel - Under Nuclear Attack by Josh Parker

A secret sale of radioactive cesium from a Russian nuclear storage facility uncovers a ruthless smuggler's sinister plot to destroy New York. See Sample Chapters.

Josh Parker, a sixty-something-year-old veteran Jewish CIA analyst, is called out of retirement when the United States is hurled headlong toward nuclear disaster. Synopsis.

A chilling spy novel that moves from the Middle-East to Europe into Central America and ends in the United States. See Sample Chapters.

Length of the manuscript for the new novel is 100,000 words. Past writing credits include seventeen continuous years of published weekly newspaper articles and monthly magazine column. See Biography.

Will the manuscript for the novel be considered non-fiction? Read the sample chapters and be the judge.

Under Nuclear Attack is retired CIA Agent Josh Parker’s bio-thriller. Parker writes about growing up in Boston, his twenty years at CIA, and his civilian life after leaving the government. This is the first of his three novels proposed for publication. See Sample Chapters.

When the Central Intelligence Agency uncovers a covert sale of radioactive cesium at a Russian nuclear storage facility, former CIA Analyst, Josh Parker reluctantly lumbers out of comfortable retirement to face a ruthless Nicaraguan smuggler’s sinister plot to destroy New York City. See Synopsis.

The 100,000-word manuscript is completed and ready for submission to a publishing house. See Sample Chapters. The other two novels are secured at Langley and will be declassified for release over the next two years. The manuscript for the novel Under Nuclear Attack is the sole work product of the author, A. J. Cushner and under a pending United States Copyright. See Biography.

Time is running out!

Three separate story lines unravel and meet when the "company" and a retired CIA agent square off against an insanely dangerous terrorist while the clock is precipitously ticking down to Armogeddon.

Josh Parker and author A. J. Cushner are joined at the hip and lend the novel the kind of realism readers found in The Kite Runner. Like Cushner, Parker is a Jewish kid from Boston who spoke Russian before English, which the U. S. Army did not overlook at the height of the cold war. They both chose the path less traveled that would eventually lead Parker into the world of Ian Fleming and Robert Ludlum. Indeed, Parker is the writer’s alter ego.