num_pages: 465
description: March 14 2003 was the day the world changed forever. A wave of energy slammed into North America and 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 nationand the battle for New York City has begun.Pirates and foreign militias are swarming the East Coast taking everything they can. The president comes to the Declared Security Zone of New York and barely survives the visit. The enemywhoever they arecontrols Manhattans concrete canyons and the abandoned flatlands of Long Island. The U.S. military struggling with sketchy communications and 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 and her brawny partner Rhino search for a treasure whose key lies inside an Upper East Side Manhattan apartment. Thousands of miles away a rogue general leads the secession of Texas and a brutal campaign against immigrants while Miguel Pieraro a Mexican-born rancher fights back. And in England a U.S. special ops agent is called into a violent shadow war against an enemy that has come after her and her family.The president is a stranger to the military mindset but now this mild-mannered city engineer from the Pacific Northwest needs to make a soldiers choice. With New York clutched in the grip of thousands of heavily armed predators is an all-out attack on the city the only way to save it? From the geopolitics of post-American dominance to the fallout of Israels nuclear strike After America provides a gripping intelligent and harrowing chronicle of a world in the maw of chaosand lives lived in the dangerous dawn of a strange new future. 
language: English
title: After America
publisher: Del Rey