WITHOUT WARNING
de Birmingham, John
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/Very Good
- Librería
-
Canandaigua, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Del Rey/Random House, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The first book in this award-winning Australian author's "Without Warning" alternate fiction trilogy. On March 14, 2003, a wave of immense, inexplicable energy obliterates most of the continental U.S., Mexico and southern Canada. Nations around the world must face a new reality without an international policeman. For a scattered few -- a slick Texas lawyer, a drug-running pirate on a 40-foot sailboat, a cancer-stricken spy in Paris, a city engineer in Seattle, an American general in Cuba -- this is a story of violence and survival in an unknowable future. Tiny remainder dot on bottom edge of text, three pages at the beginning of Chapter 35 creased, spine ends lightly bumped, o/w text is clean and unmarked, tight and square. Boards show only a touch of edgewear. Dustjacket shows two small chips along upper edge of back panel, o/w very minor surface wear. Scarce in the U.S.
Sinopsis
In Kuwait, American forces are stacked up, locked and loaded for the invasion of Iraq. In Paris, a covert agent, a woman who inhabits a twilight of lies and death, is close to cracking a terrorist cell. And just north of the equator, a forty-foot wood-hulled sailboat, manned by a drug runner, a pirate, and two gun-slinging beauties, is witness to the unspeakable. In one instant, all around the world, for politicians and peasants, from Gaza to Geneva, things will never be the same. A wave of inexplicable energy has slammed into the continental United States. America, as we know it, is gone. . . .WITHOUT WARNINGNow U.S. soldiers are fighting a war without command or control. A correspondent records horrors for no one. Washington is gone and the line of succession is in tatters; the functioning remnants of government are in Pearl Harbor, Guantanamo Bay, and one desperate, isolated corner of the Northwest. For the jihadists, it's Allah's miracle. For Saddam, it's a chance to attack. Iran declares war on an America that doesn't exist--except in the hearts and souls of the men and women who want it to.In this astounding work of alternate fiction, John Birmingham hurtles us into a scenario that is unimaginable but shatteringly real: a world of financial ruin where a cloud of noxious waste--from America's burning cities--darkens Europe, while men and women in offices around the globe struggle to make decisions that cannot hold and opportunists unleash their secret demons.From a slick Texas lawyer who happens to be in the right place at the right time to a hard-working city engineer in Seattle who becomes his terrified city's only hope, from the cancer-stricken secret agent to a drug runner off the Mexican coast and a U.S. general in Cuba, Without Warning tells a fast, furious story of survival, violence, and a new, soul-shattering reality. The first in an epic trilogy that will leave readers breathless and astounded, Without Warning offers a world without its policeman, its Great Satan, or its savior--as an unknowable future struggles to be born.From the Hardcover edition.
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Detalles
- Librería
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 005121
- Título
- WITHOUT WARNING
- Autor
- Birmingham, John
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Editorial
- Del Rey/Random House
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2009
- Palabras clave
- ALTERNATE FICTION, FIRST EDITION, SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS,
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Thriller; Science Fiction; Suspense;
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Canandaigua, New York
Sobre H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.
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