Years
of budget cutting and neglect have left the United States military in a
sadly weakened state. When a world-wide depression further strains
the resources of the west, the leaders of China see an opportunity that
has not presented itself in nearly a thousand years. The time has
come, they believe, to throw off the shackles of corrupt western
influence. A quick strike with nuclear and biological weapons, and
the Middle Kingdom will once again rule all the known world.
Standing between China and her ambitions are a few
brave men and women and a technology that was once the envy of the
world. Whether it will be sufficient in the coming crisis remains to
be seen ...
Thus begins Kevin Gildea's yarn of a future that is
all too plausible.