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Dean Ing (born 1931) is an American author, who usually writes in the science fiction and techno-thriller genres. Dean Charles Ing was formerly a member of the United States Air Force, an aerospace engineer, and a university professor who holds a doctorate in communications theory. He has been a professional writer since 1977. Following the death of science fiction author Mack Reynolds in 1983, Ing was asked to finish several of Reynolds' uncompleted manuscripts. A novel of post-holocaust America Fight for life in streamlined America! 1995: Scorse of our cities are vaporized, everwhere chaos reigns. In all of America only one major social unit was prepared for Armageddon: the Mormons. In Utah Civil Defense is a religious imperative: now every practicing Mormon is crowded into a warren of bunkers underneath Salt Lake City with a year's supply of food, medicine—and weapons. Small wonder then if when America begins to dig itself out it looks to a Mormon President for leadership. Small wonder too if the Mormon hieracrchy yields to the siren call of religious dictatorship... EDITORIAL REVIEW: The exciting sequel to Systemic Shock from the bestselling author of The Ransom of Black Stealth One. The nuclear war against China and India has left America victorious, but devastated, and a strong and survival-minded government has seized control of what's left. "Ing's most ambitious book to date."--Booklist. An American which has been destroyed by war is held together by Mormon civil defenses and led by a Mormon president who must resist the temptation of religious dictatorship