num_pages: 404
description: What will the next global conflict look like? Find out in this ripping near-futuristic thriller. The United States China and Russia eye each other across a twenty-first century version of the Cold War which suddenly heats up at sea on land in the air in outer space and in cyberspace. The fighting involves everything from stealthy roboticdrone strikes to old warships from the navys ghost fleet. Fighter pilots unleash a Pearl Harborstyle attack; American veterans become low-tech insurgents; teenage hackers battle in digital playgrounds; Silicon Valley billionaires mobilize for cyber-war; and a serial killer carries out her own vendetta. Ultimately victory will depend on blending the lessons of the past with the weapons of the future.Ghost Fleet is a page-turning speculative thriller in the spirit of The Hunt for Red October. The debut novel by two leading experts on the cutting edge of national security it is unique in that every trend and technology featured in the novel  no matter how sci-fi it may seem  is real or could be soon. 
language: English
title: Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War
publisher: Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt