Fiery evangelistic General Arnold "Red Dog" Sorkin is commander of the Rockland Air Force Base in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. When he discovers his base is about to be shut down in a Pentagon cost-cutting, he and a few of his fellow officers who grew up in the South and long for an underground "New Confederacy" decide to blackmail the nation by re-directing their nuclear Minutemen ICBM missiles towards New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. As they attempt to enter the silos and re-direct the missiles, emissaries are sent to Senator Manning, the Speaker of the House, preparing him to step into the Presidency when the President leaves the White House, which he must do under such an imminent and catastrophic threat from the military. Against the leaders of the coup, the Air Force dispatches one of its best, General "Ace" Yeager, who flies to the mutinous base but is captured by the rogue General. But all is not lost. Hot on the trail of the mutineers is Detective Frank Zabrinski of the Philadelphia Police Department. This is a fast paced thriller which William Richert calls a "Cinema Novella" or a screen-play in prose, meant to be read on the page or acted out. If the style is reminiscent of Stanly Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove," it is purposeful -- "I want to connect the reader to the warnings from the past by other artists regarding the inherent dangers of each and every nuclear weapon. They all have got to be exterminated, and the cinema can reach almost everybody -- even a 'Cinema Novella' like mine." WHAT GENERALS DO AT NIGHT provides maximum reading entertainment for informative propaganda about the dangers of nuclear weapons anywhere in the world. Although the Air Force Generals are villains in the book, they are the heroes, too, as every man and woman in the novel seems to want to do "right" by herself and the country. "It is knowing what catastrophic dangers are lurking in the soil with 26,000 active ICBM sites across the U.S. that prompted me to write this novella. And it is the knowledgeable who will most be interested. But it is the ignorant we have to reach, urgently, as soon as possible, on behalf of all of us."