From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a
chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash
between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034--and the path
from there to a nightmarish global conflagration.
On March 12, 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship, the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones,
conducting a routine freedom of navigation patrol in the South China
Sea when her ship detects an unflagged trawler in clear distress, smoke
billowing from its bridge. On that same day, US Marine aviator Major
Chris "Wedge" Mitchell is flying an F35E Lightning over the Strait of
Hormuz, testing a new stealth technology as he flirts with Iranian
airspace. By the end of that day, Wedge will be an Iranian prisoner, and
Sarah Hunt's destroyer will lie at the bottom of the sea, sunk by the
Chinese Navy. Iran and China have clearly coordinated their moves, which
involve the use of powerful new forms of cyber weaponry that render US
ships and planes defenseless. In a single day, America's faith in its
military's strategic pre-eminence is in tatters. A new, terrifying era
is at hand.
So begins a disturbingly plausible work of
speculative fiction, co-authored by an award-winning novelist and
decorated Marine veteran and the former commander of NATO, a legendary
admiral who has spent much of his career strategically outmaneuvering
America's most tenacious adversaries. Written with a powerful blend of
geopolitical sophistication and human empathy, 2034 takes us
inside the minds of a global cast of characters--Americans, Chinese,
Iranians, Russians, Indians--as a series of arrogant miscalculations on
all sides leads the world into an intensifying international storm. In
the end, China and the United States will have paid a staggering cost,
one that forever alters the global balance of power.
Everything in 2034
is an imaginative extrapolation from present-day facts on the ground
combined with the authors' years working at the highest and most
classified levels of national security. Sometimes it takes a brilliant
work of fiction to illuminate the most dire of warnings: 2034 is all too
close at hand, and this cautionary tale presents the reader a dark yet
possible future that we must do all we can to avoid
