Adam Rothstein

This book is a lot of fun. For once, an alternate history that isn't about the Nazis winning. Of course it's plenty about the real USA and how government does and does not work, but it's also an action story with engineers and scientists for heroes and a really engaging vision of a different way 20th Century technology could have unfolded. Towards the end it suffers a little from trying to cram too many ideas into a fairly short book, but the momentum of the story kept it going.