The new Alaska gold rush was liberty and common law justice. It was his
to defend, his to shepherd in the air, on the sea, and underwater, for
as long and as conscientiously as possible on Ralston's watch as
Commander-in-Chief, an enormous land mass that abutted Russia on his
western flank and grimly faced the southern DMZ that stretched five
hundred miles from the Misty Fjords to Vanderhoof. The Executive Branch
presents diplomatic intrigue, brutal special forces action, and a tour
de force of libertarian ideas about national security.