{"product_id":"2940015762884","title":"When the Sleepers Woke","description":"\"Prepare for battle!\" The command crackled in Allan Dane's helmet.\u003cbr\u003e\"Enemy approaching from southeast! Squadron commanders execute plan\u003cbr\u003etwo!\" Allan settled back in the seat of his one-man helicopter, his\u003cbr\u003ebroad frame rendered even bulkier by the leather suit that incased\u003cbr\u003eit. He was tensed, but quiescent. Action would be first joined sixty\u003cbr\u003emiles away, and his own squadron was in reserve.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver New York and its bay the American air fleet was in motion.\u003cbr\u003eSuddenly movement ceased, and the formation froze. Ten flying forts\u003cbr\u003ewere each the apex of a far-spread cone, axis horizontal, whose body\u003cbr\u003ewas the fanned back-ranging of its squadron of a thousand helicopter\u003cbr\u003eplanes. The cones bristled oceanward from the sea-margin of New York,\u003cbr\u003etheir points a fifty-mile arc of defiance, their bases tangent to one\u003cbr\u003eanother, almost touching the ground at their lower edges, then\u003cbr\u003ecircling upward for ten thousand feet. From van to rear each formation\u003cbr\u003ewas five miles in length.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBehind and above, the main body of the fleet sloped in echeloned\u003cbr\u003eranks, hiding the threatened city with an impenetrable terraced wall\u003cbr\u003eof buzzing helios and massive forts. Up, back, up, back, the serried\u003cbr\u003emasses reached, till the rearmost were twenty-five thousand feet\u003cbr\u003ealoft. And farther behind, unmoving on their six-mile level, were the\u003cbr\u003elight 'copters of the reserve. Dane gazed down that tremendous vista\u003cbr\u003eto the far-off front line, and swore softly. Just his luck to be out\u003cbr\u003eof the scrap: the enemy would never penetrate to these northern\u003cbr\u003eout-skirts of New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Men of the fleet!\" General Huntington's voice sounded from his\u003cbr\u003eflagship, the _Washington_. Somehow its gruffness overrode the\u003cbr\u003emechanical quality of the intra-fleet radio transmission. Almost it\u003cbr\u003eseemed he was there in the tiny cabin. \"Reports have at this moment\u003cbr\u003ebeen received that our attack fleets have been everywhere successful.\u003cbr\u003eOur rocket ships have destroyed Tokyo, Addis Ababa, Odessa, Peiping\u003cbr\u003eand Cape Town, and are now ranging inland through enemy territory.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEven through the double leather of his helmet a roar came to Allan. He\u003cbr\u003efelt his craft vibrate to the exultant cheers of the fleet. His own\u003cbr\u003emouth was open, and his throat rasping....","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074310455536,"sku":"2940015762884","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015762884","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}