In the final book of the blistering trilogy The Hot War, old hatreds
and new chances for revenge are unleashed on an already devastated
world--as the Cold War becomes a roaring inferno.
In 1952 American cities lie in ruins. President Harry Truman, in office
since 1945, presides over a makeshift government in Philadelphia,
suffering his own personal loss and fearing for the future of democracy.
In the wake of Hitler's reign, Germany and America have become allies,
and Stalin's vise hold on power in the USSR persists. Unwilling to trust
the Soviet tyrant, Truman launches a long-planned nuclear strike on the
city of Omsk--killing Stalin and plunging the Red Army into leaderless,
destructive anarchy. Meanwhile, the Baltic states careen toward
rebellion, and Poland is seized by rebels bred on war. In a world awash
with victims turned victors, refugees, and killers, has Truman struck a
blow for peace or fueled more chaos?
As these staggering events unfold, the lives of men and women across
battle lines, ethnicities, and religions play out around the globe. In
Los Angeles, an extended Jewish family builds a future, while the foul
smell of a refugee camp in Santa Monica blows in on the ocean breeze. In
Korea, a U.S. fighter struggles to bring his Korean interpreter
stateside as a full American. In Siberia, two German women fight for
their survival in a gulag--and begin a strange, harrowing journey home.
From the terrifying global chess match between superpowers to the
strength of individual human conscience, Armistice captures a world
that's been split to its core by the violence only mankind can create.
Through the thunder of battle, the clashes of armies, and the whispers
of lovers, how humanity will be rebuilt, and who will do it, are the
questions that resound in this marvelous work of imagination and
history.
Praise for Armistice
"The story's focus remains on ordinary characters and how they cope with
their particular circumstances. . . . Readers who savor the patient
accumulation of detail around each scenario will by now be thoroughly
addicted."--Kirkus Reviews
"The series is entertaining and explores life on the razor's
edge."--SFRevu
