# The Penultimate Truth

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- Book: [The Penultimate Truth](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-k-dick/the-penultimate-truth) ([The Penultimate Truth.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-k-dick/the-penultimate-truth.md))
- Authors: [Philip K. Dick](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-k-dick)
- Publisher: gateway
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-05-7509-827-5
- Published: 2010-05-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

A masterly tale of political deception from the most significant SF writer of the 20th century World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. For fiteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in the all powerful Protector. Now someone has gone to the surface and found no destruction, no war. The authorities have been telling a massive lie. Now the search begins to find out why.