American Empire #3
Del Rey
August 2005
On Sale: August 1, 2005
ISBN: 5559608394 EAN: 9780345444240 Kindle: B000FBJBSG Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Twice in the last century, brutal war erupted between the
United States and the Confederacy. Then, after a generation
of relative peace, The Great War exploded worldwide. As the
conflict engulfed Europe, the C.S.A. backed the Allies,
while the U.S. found its own ally in Imperial Germany. The
Confederate States, France, and England all fell. Russia
self-destructed, and the Japanese, seeing that the cause was
lost, retired to fight another day.
The Great War has ended, and an uneasy peace reigns around
most of the world. But nowhere is the peace more fragile
than on the continent of North America, where bitter enemies
share a single landmass and two long, bloody borders.
In the North, proud Canadian nationalists try to resist the
colonial power of the United States. In the South, the
once-mighty Confederate States have been pounded into
poverty and merciless inflation. U.S. President Teddy
Roosevelt refuses to return to pre-war borders. The scars of
the past will not soon be healed. The time is right for
madmen, demagogues, and terrorists.
At this crucial moment in history, with Socialists rising to
power in the U.S. under the leadership of presidential
candidate Upton Sinclair, a dangerous fanatic is on the rise
in the Confederacy, preaching a message of hate. And in
Canada another man--a simple farmer--has a nefarious plan:
to assassinate the greatest U.S. war hero, General George
Armstrong Custer.
With tension on the seas high, and an army of Marxist
Negroes lurking in the swamplands of the Deep South, more
than enough people are eager to return the world to war.
Harry Turtledove sends his sprawling cast of men and
women--wielding their own faiths, persuasions, and private
demons--into the troubled times between the wars.