Last week, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich said on CBS-TV that the U.S. Supreme Court decision to allow enemy combatants to challenge their detention at Guantanamo was "a disaster" that might lead to the nuclear destruction of a U.S. city.
Gingrich, who gave up his congressional seat in 1998, is still active in politics and earlier this year put out unsuccessful feelers concerning a possible run for the White House.
This collaboration with science fiction author William R. Forstchen brings with the narrative some of Gingrich's political baggage. Basically it hypothesizes what would have happened if Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto had taken direct command of the Japanese Combined Fleet. Would he, unlike Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, have been more aggressive and, after striking the American air fields and battleships, ordered followup attacks on Pearl Harbor's dry dock, submarine base and oil storage facilities?