The United States and Europe come to deadly blows in Chris Fox's provocative thriller.
As a contract agent of the CIA Cafe, the agency's black-budget Contract Agents for Economics, Terry Weston played a clandestine game of espionage against the spy services of Europe in which nobody got badly hurt. But the stakes become life and death for Terry, his wife Maria and their six-year-old daughter when old allies turn into bitter enemies.
In 2010, Old Europe is fading from memory. Germany is bankrupt, NATO dissolved. A supersized Greater European Union, led by France and Russia, engages in political brinksmanship with the United States.
The new leaders of Europe are obsessed with "the American problem," that Europe still plays a global #2 to the US Even in space, the new frontier of the 21st Century, the Pentagon will deploy a Space Shield to own this high ground and deny it to adversaries. But the DGSE spy service has developed a technology solution to the American problem. It will make Europe #1 in space, and reduce the US military to a fighting force that will have to fight with its fists.
Only Terry and Maria Weston can prevent a catastrophic act of sabotage from changing the world more than any war in history. But old friends and even family members can no longer be trusted, as the two great rivals of the 21st century head for a conflict as inevitable as tomorrow's headlines.
