An instant New York Times Bestseller! Consider this another vaccine against disaster.
Fortunately this dose won't cause a temporary fever-and it happens to be a rippingly good
read. -Wired 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… -The Washington
Post From 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-and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration. On March 12 2034
US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship the guided missile destroyer USS
John Paul Jones 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. So 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 2034 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. Everything in 2034 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.
