Master storyteller and bestselling author Steven Pressfield returns
with a stunning, chillingly plausible 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 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 plans 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 Gilbert Gent Gentilhomme, Salter's most loyal foot soldier,
who launches a desperate mission to take out his mentor and save the
United States from self destruction.
Infused with 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.
