β Scribed by Steven Pressfield
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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...
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### Review "Steven Pressfield, in "The Profession", has written a novel of the near future that is as good and in some cases better than anything Tom Clancy ever wrote in his day." **-Mark Whittington, Yahoo!** "Pressfieldβs military thriller stands out from the crowd by speculating on what t
**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
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