Amerika ...the Novel

I recently purchased the book "Amerika" on Ebay. It is intresting some of the things added in the book that are left out in the movie. For example, the book begans with a brief explantion as to how the Soviets invaded the usa:

"The Key, then, was to attack and disable the communication systems among the targets, thereby crippling the entire system.

High in the stratospher above Ameria, four enormous nuclear devices were detonated. On earth, the explosions were heard only as a low rumble. No one was hurt by the blasts, nor did they generate a dangerous amount of fallout; no one even felt the consussive power of the bombs. But the explosions were "felt" by every computer circuit, every telephone line, every banking system, and every electrical plant from Main to San Diego. The detonations created a vast electro-magnectic pulse (EMP) that was like a hundred thousand bursts of lighting focused insidiously on America's netrvous system. Vast stores of computer memory were instantly erased. The coils of electric generators sizzled and sized. Telephones went dead. The age of communications eneded in a millisecond, and with it ended America's military, political and econocmic hegemony.

The conquest of America, incredibly, had been effected without taking a single life. American missiles stood unharmed in their silos, but couldnt not be activated. Around the world, American forces, their ranks undiminished, were at the ready, but could not be issued orders. In Washington, the American president was given an agonizing and humiliating choice: surrender and agree to unilateral disarment, the virtual destruction of the dollar, and the essential end of national sovereignty; or resist, fight back with whatever sundered forces could be mustered, and face certain annihilation..."

Well we know what happens next. The book is intresting... it details more about the relationship between Devin and Amanda before she married Peter... in which the book details ever so nicely how Amanda gave her virginity to Devin, despite Peter waiting patienly for 2 and half years for "it"... poor Peter "lol". Anways, I am about 1/3rd the way through the book. It follows very closely the script of the movie, but with added material that is left out in the movie... in addition it goes into more detail about Devin's run for President in 1992 and it explains more about the "transition" period between 1992 to 1997. Thus, I think the book makes for some good reading if you are really into this movie. If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch with me. The book can easily be purchased on Ebay.