I appreciate any help you might extend - I have looked for this book off & on for decades.
It was a paperback novel, in English, that I read in the later 1960s (perhaps into the 1980s). Sorry for the vagueness but after 2 tours in Nam, then College + life, then small stroke - I can't always keep it straight.
Story: A rich/powerfull man had built a very extensive nuclear shelter beneath his property. I think on the eastcoast near the ocean possibly an island. It's very well stocked with food, supplies, medicine,etc. Has many rooms, electricity, underground river, secure blast/radiation protected entrance, etc. When the nuclear war starts, only a relative few make it in -often by accident. The Northern Hemisphere is basically wiped out. There are the expected clashes among the survivors, most of who are more or less strangers.
There is no future for them because everything is very hot radioactively and will be so for very long into the future.
They make contact with Australia (not much left up north) who launch a sealed Navy ship or submarine to rescue the survivors who have no other hope. The rich guy had socked away some critical supplies/elements(?) that the Aussies were in desperate need of but they would mount a humanitarian rescue even without the supplies of whatever.
I ran a copy of the listing "Please Read First" by "dannymcg" " and I have tried hard to remember the needed details but cannot recall any more now than I could recall in the past (sorry). Please don't waste much time chewing on this since I couldn't help out much - I've wondered over the years why just this book has tugged at me any number of times over the years even though I can't remember important details about it!
Thanks, Steve
It was a paperback novel, in English, that I read in the later 1960s (perhaps into the 1980s). Sorry for the vagueness but after 2 tours in Nam, then College + life, then small stroke - I can't always keep it straight.
Story: A rich/powerfull man had built a very extensive nuclear shelter beneath his property. I think on the eastcoast near the ocean possibly an island. It's very well stocked with food, supplies, medicine,etc. Has many rooms, electricity, underground river, secure blast/radiation protected entrance, etc. When the nuclear war starts, only a relative few make it in -often by accident. The Northern Hemisphere is basically wiped out. There are the expected clashes among the survivors, most of who are more or less strangers.
There is no future for them because everything is very hot radioactively and will be so for very long into the future.
They make contact with Australia (not much left up north) who launch a sealed Navy ship or submarine to rescue the survivors who have no other hope. The rich guy had socked away some critical supplies/elements(?) that the Aussies were in desperate need of but they would mount a humanitarian rescue even without the supplies of whatever.
I ran a copy of the listing "Please Read First" by "dannymcg" " and I have tried hard to remember the needed details but cannot recall any more now than I could recall in the past (sorry). Please don't waste much time chewing on this since I couldn't help out much - I've wondered over the years why just this book has tugged at me any number of times over the years even though I can't remember important details about it!
Thanks, Steve
