Foreign and Domestic: Campaign II--Battle for the Middle States

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 434 pages
• Published by: Radius7 Pressworks
• Edition: 1st Edition June 26, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0979675901
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0979675904
• Book Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Weighs: 1.5 pounds

Product Description
Foreign and Domestic: Campaign II--Battle for the Middle States by Michael Mannske is a page-turning war-thriller that explores the high price of freedom and the cost of fighting the U.S. president himself to secure it! In this sweeping epic, it is the near future and the UN has now become a superpower, brutally fighting the United States on its own soil. Ex-Air Force pilot John "Spiderman" Trent's life is in constant danger, his beloved wife is forced into an internment camp, and the fate of the world is in grave jeopardy. Can Trent's secret force of military patriots save the day-and the Constitution?

About The Author
Michael Mannske graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering. He worked on classified military projects in Silicon Valley before flying A-10 Thunderbolt IIs and OV-10 Broncos for the Air Force. He served with the 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions during the Gulf War as an Air Liaison officer. He lives in the Middle States with his wife.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Foreign and Domestic: Campaign II--Battle for the Middle States (Hardcover) The author calls this book, "Near Fiction," i.e. "a futuristic story that ping pongs somewhere between non-fiction and science fiction." It is certainly all that and much more. The book is about the US-UN War. Far fetched? It is Book 2 of a trilogy and Books 1 and 3 have not been written yet. Odd? Ask George Lucas. I have to admit that it took me several chapters to wrap my brain around the author's concept of a near fiction war between the US and the UN, but the further one goes into the story, the easier the idea is to accept. The thing which makes this all work for me is that Michael Mannske can flat out write. His characters come alive, his scenarios become plausable and his knowledge of the military gives the book an authenticity that near fiction and science fiction need in order to remain plausible. Mannske says in the Afterword that he wrote this book because he was bored. That he wanted to escape the post 9/11 world and be "mesmerized again by cataclysmic clashes and superpower showdowns...where military strategies are brought to life and age old SIOP [Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol] war plans dusted off and tested in the crucible of the imagination." The crucible of this author's imagination is white hot. If you are looking for a book that is not boring and quite mesmerizing, Foreign and Domestic is just the ticket. I promise you it will make you think and probably keep you up later than is good for you. It did me.