Without Warning
In Kuwait, American forces are stacked up, locked and loaded for the
invasion of Iraq. In Paris, a covert agent, a woman who inhabits a
twilight of lies and death, is close to cracking a terrorist cell. And
just north of the equator, a forty-foot wood-hulled sailboat, manned by a drug runner, a pirate, and two gun-slinging beauties, is witness to the unspeakable. In one instant, all around the world, for politicians and
peasants, from Gaza to Geneva, things will never be the same. A wave of
inexplicable energy has slammed into the continental United States.
America, as we know it, is gone...
WITHOUT WARNING
Now U.S. soldiers are fighting a war without command or control. A
correspondent records horrors for no one. Washington is gone and the
line of succession is in tatters; the functioning remnants of government are in Pearl Harbor, Guantánamo Bay, and one desperate, isolated corner of the Northwest. For the jihadists, it’s Allah’s miracle. For Saddam,
it’s a chance to attack. Iran declares war on an America that doesn’t
exist – except in the hearts and souls of the men and women who want it
to.
In this astounding work of alternate fiction, John Birmingham hurtles us into a scenario that is unimaginable but shatteringly real: a world of financial ruin where a cloud of noxious waste – from America’s
burning cities – darkens Europe, while men and women in offices around the globe struggle to make decisions that cannot hold and opportunists
unleash their secret demons.
From a slick Texas lawyer who
happens to be in the right place at the right time to a hard-working
city engineer in Seattle who becomes his terrified city’s only hope,
from the cancer-stricken secret agent to a drug runner off the Mexican
coast and a U.S. general in Cuba, Without Warning tells a fast, furious
story of survival, violence, and a new, soul-shattering reality. The
first in an epic trilogy that will leave readers breathless and
astounded, Without Warning offers a world without its policeman, its
Great Satan, or its savior – as an unknowable future struggles to be born.
