Author: John Birmingham
Publication Date: 17-Aug-10
Publisher: Del Rey US
Format: Hardback
March 14, 2003, was the day the world changed forever. A wave of energy slammed into North America & devastated the continent. The U.S. military, poised to invade Baghdad, was left without a commander in chief. Global order spiraled into chaos. Now, three years later, a skeleton U.S. government headquartered in Seattle directs the reconstruction of an entire nationÑ& the battle for New York City has begun. Pirates & foreign militias are swarming the East Coast, taking everything they can. The president comes to the Declared Security Zone of New York & barely survives the visit. The enemyÑwhoever they areÑcontrols ManhattanÕs concrete canyons & the abandoned flatlands of Long Island. The U.S. military, struggling with sketchy communications & a lack of supplies, is mired in a nightmare of urban combat. Caught up in the violence is a Polish-born sergeant who watches the carnage through the eyes of an intellectual and with the heart of a warrior. Two smugglers, the highborn Lady Julianne Balwyn & her brawny partner Rhino, search for a treasure whose key lies inside an Upper East Side Manhattan apartment.
