Seven Days in May
Fletcher Knebel, 1962
A Cold War thriller about a popular general's plot against the White House, and the handful of insiders trying to stop him in seven days.
Fletcher Knebel
Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II were both journalists; their 1962 novel was adapted into a 1964 film starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.
Feels like power, unease and dread.
A handful of men can stop the government from falling off a monument.
All you’ve got to know is this: right now the government of the United States is sitting on top of the Washington Monument, right on the very point, tilting right and left and ready to fall off and break up on the pavement. There are just a handful of men that can prevent it. And you’re one of them. Books by Fletcher Knebel
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