{"product_id":"2034-a-novel-of-the-next-world-war","title":"2034: A Novel of the Next World War","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003e2034: A Novel of the Next World War\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eElliot Ackerman\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781984881250\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePenguin Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2021\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition first Printing\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e320\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition: \u003c\/b\u003eUsed Copy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn instant \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller! \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Consider this another vaccine against disaster. Fortunately, this dose won't cause a temporary fever--and it happens to be a rippingly good read.\" --\u003ci\u003eWired\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This crisply written and well-paced book reads like an all-caps warning for a world shackled to the machines we carry in our pockets and place on our laps . . .\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003eand the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn March 12, 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship, the guided missile destroyer USS \u003ci\u003eJohn Paul Jones\u003c\/i\u003e, conducting a routine freedom of navigation patrol in the South China Sea when her ship detects an unflagged trawler in clear distress, smoke billowing from its bridge. On that same day, US Marine aviator Major Chris \"Wedge\" Mitchell is flying an F35E Lightning over the Strait of Hormuz, testing a new stealth technology as he flirts with Iranian airspace. By the end of that day, Wedge will be an Iranian prisoner, and Sarah Hunt's destroyer will lie at the bottom of the sea, sunk by the Chinese Navy. Iran and China have clearly coordinated their moves, which involve the use of powerful new forms of cyber weaponry that render US ships and planes defenseless. In a single day, America's faith in its military's strategic pre-eminence is in tatters. A new, terrifying era is at hand. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo begins a disturbingly plausible work of speculative fiction, co-authored by an award-winning novelist and decorated Marine veteran and the former commander of NATO, a legendary admiral who has spent much of his career strategically outmaneuvering America's most tenacious adversaries. Written with a powerful blend of geopolitical sophistication and human empathy, \u003ci\u003e2034\u003c\/i\u003e takes us inside the minds of a global cast of characters--Americans, Chinese, Iranians, Russians, Indians--as a series of arrogant miscalculations on all sides leads the world into an intensifying international storm. In the end, China and the United States will have paid a staggering cost, one that forever alters the global balance of power. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEverything in \u003ci\u003e2034\u003c\/i\u003e is an imaginative extrapolation from present-day facts on the ground combined with the authors' years working at the highest and most classified levels of national security. Sometimes it takes a brilliant work of fiction to illuminate the most dire of warnings: 2034 is all too close at hand, and this cautionary tale presents the reader a dark yet possible future that we must do all we can to avoid.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Penguin Press","offers":[{"title":"2034: A Novel of the Next World War | Elliot Ackerman | Hardcover | 9781984881250 | Used: Like New | Fiction 1716674","offer_id":48310460481688,"sku":"1716674","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81rrAm6ym5L.jpg?v=1773154973","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/2034-a-novel-of-the-next-world-war","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}