Protect and Defend

TOWARDS ARMAGEDDON…

During a US presidential campaign, anarchists force the Russian government into exile and menace the world’s capitals with terrorism. Police crackdowns meant to stifle the onslaught cause rioting in America’s streets. Russia plunges into civil war and then, exhausted, simply collapses. NATO is drawn into the Siberian power vacuum under UN auspices — and over Asian protests. China begins a general mobilization and, on the eve of the US election, makes its first aggressive move. Soon, hard-pressed NATO troops are digging into the frozen Siberian soil to face the onslaught of invading Chinese forces. The world stands poised on the brink of apocalypse…

Terrorism, civil war, anarchy, and a titanic clash of military might and political ideologies on the subarctic Eurasian plain form the sweeping global setting against which a brilliantly portrayed cast of characters achieve their dramatic destinies in Eric L. Harry’s outstanding epic of near-future conflict.