The “master storyteller” (Publishers Weekly) and
bestselling author of Gates of Fire, The Afghan
Campaign, and Killing Rommel returns with a
stunning, chillinglyplausible near-future thriller
about the rise of a privately financed and global military
industrial complex.
The year is 2032. The
third Iran-Iraq war is over; the 11/11 dirty bomb attack on
the port of Long Beach, California is receding into memory;
Saudi Arabia has recently quelled a coup; Russians and Turks
are clashing in the Caspian Basin; Iranian armored units,
supported by the satellite and drone power of their Chinese
allies, have emerged from their enclaves in Tehran and are
sweeping south attempting to recapture the resource rich
territory that had been stolen from them, in their view, by
Lukoil, BP, and ExxonMobil and their privately-funded
armies. Everywhere military force is for hire. Oil
companies, multi-national corporations and banks employ
powerful, cutting-edge mercenary armies to control global
chaos and protect their riches. Even nation states
enlist mercenary forces to suppress internal insurrections,
hunt terrorists, and do the black bag jobs necessary to
maintain the new New World Order.
Force
Insertion is the world's merc monopoly. Its leader is the
disgraced former United States Marine General James Salter,
stripped of his command by the president for nuclear
saber-rattling with the Chinese and banished to the Far
East. A grandmaster military and political strategist,
Salter deftly seizes huge oil and gas fields, ultimately
making himself the most powerful man in the world.
Salter's endgame is to take vengeance on those responsible
for his exile and then come home...as Commander in Chief.
The only man who can stop him is the novel's narrator,
Gilbert "Gent" Gentilhomme, Salter's most loyal foot soldier
and as close to him as the son Salter lost. As this
action-jammed, lightning fast, and brutally realistic novel
builds to its heart-stopping climax Gent launches his
personally and professionally most desperate mission: to
take out his mentor and save the United States from self
destruction.
Infused by a staggering breadth of
research in military tactics and steeped in the timeless
themes of the honor and valor of men at war that distinguish
all of Pressfield’s fiction, The Profession is that
rare novel that informs and challenges the reader almost as
much as it entertains.
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