Edge of Armageddon

by Colin M. Taylor

1970. The World stands on the brink of War, A Young Television Reporter uncovers a threat of World-shattering proportions. Ed Straker, newly-appointed Commander of SHADO faces the dilemma of saving his marriage or saving the World

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Dedicated to

Keith Alexander – For breathing life into an otherwise two-dimensional character

Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and the staff of Century 21, without whom so many lives would have been uninspired.

Ed Bishop –SHADO's one true Commander.

Sgt Phil Pugh: Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers – a good soldier and friend, tragically taken too early.

Major (Retd.) Frank Reynolds, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers: An officer and a gentleman, An inspiration to all who knew him. One of the good guys.

George Sewell –SHADO's Conscience

The Scientists and Engineers of the Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment, Fort Halstead and the Military Vehicle Experimental Establishment, Chertsey, who did so much for their country, for so long, yet for so little.

My thanks go to:

Mike Wright and David McGibbon, Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (as was, before the bean-counters and spivs got at it), for their invaluable advice.

Andrew Frampton, British Broadcasting Corporation

Bob Weighill and Derek Jones, for some of the local colour

Paul Groves, formerly of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, a fellow Old Dartfordian

Mr Eric Barnes, Consultant Opthalmologist