The Final Countdown

Nothing in history could prepare you for The Final Countdown. On December 7th, 1980 - The nuclear carrier USS Nimitz disappeared in the Pacific...and reappeared December 7th, 1941...off Pearl Harbor. SUB-TITLE: A novel. MOVIE TIE-IN: based on a screenplay by David Ambrose & Gerry Davis and Thomas Hunter & Peter Powell; based on a story by Thomas Hunter & Peter Powell and David Ambrose. SYNOPSIS: December 7th, 1980. The United States Naval Carrier Nimitz is the finest warship in the world. She is carrying a nuclear payload that can level a continent. And a fleet of fighter jets that can deliver it. Her crew is a handpicked one - like Captain Matthew Yelland, who endured the torture of the Viet Cong and did not break. And Warren Lasky, the civilian "think-tank" who designed the warship to weather any battle. But a nightmare journey has brought her to a place where no amount of brains or courage can help. To a battle that no man can win. Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941... - and - December 7, 1980 There is a storm approaching that your ship's computer says is impossible...Within a second the bottom of the ocean drops and the hair on your neck stands up as a tunnel of water envelopes you, hurling your ship from front to back and whisking jets along the deck like model planes... December 7, 1941 The sea is calm at once...But the sun is twelve hours further behind you and the only radio you can receive is a public broadcast from the President...Franklin Delano Roosevelt. When the recon planes you've sent to base at Pearl Harbor report a fleet of Japanese bombers forming to attack, you face a decision that cannot be made...and the Final Countdown has begun!