Engels Extension

The Cold War is supposedly long over. Yet the great "peace dividend" has not paid off, leaving the world's economies in trouble. Sinister pressures build abroad as leaders seek to direct their disgruntled populations away from domestic difficulties. The U.S. is not immune, facing a dire recession of its own. This puts enormous pressure on our American president to cut the defense budget drastically, creating deep divisions in the military, his own cabinet and even his family. The weakening of the U.S. military creates an unexpected opportunity for a formidable tyrant bent on world domination. Using secret biological and physics technologies so far advanced that they make nuclear weapons as ineffective as firecrackers, he blackmails America. But the U.S. still has a few tricks of its own. From the depths of American military research laboratories, the president draws on technology that most people think exists only in comic books. A complicated cat-and-mouse strategic game begins a game of move and countermove, of threat and bluff as the U.S. president tries to defend our nation against its greatest threat since World War II. If the wrong country wins, the light of liberty goes out for a thousand years. The novel takes place in the near future nearer than you think.