num_pages: 528
description: 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 Guantnamo Bay and one desperate isolated corner of the Northwest. For the jihadists its Allahs miracle. For Saddam its a chance to attack. Iran declares war on an America that doesnt existexcept 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 wastefrom Americas burning citiesdarkens 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 citys 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.
language: English
title: Without Warning
publisher: Del Rey