The warning signs were impossible to ignore. Massive Chinese naval exercises. American allies scrambling to form desperate coalitions. Intelligence analysts tracking ominous military buildups while Washington descended into paralysis.
State Department analyst David Kenner sees the storm approaching, but no one in power will listen. Across the Pacific, Captain Jax Miller commands Task Force Vigilance Australian and allied warships operating in increasingly hostile waters. In Taiwan’s mountains, Dr. Lin Mei-Chen prepares evacuation routes for a crisis she prays will never come.
In Beijing’s war rooms, Senior Colonel Li Zhimin witnesses preparations for an operation that will either establish China as the world’s dominant power or plunge the Pacific into the largest conflict since 1945.
From cyber warfare to submarine hunts, from Washington’s corridors to Taiwan’s threatened shores, professional soldiers and intelligence officers face impossible choices as the global order fractures. When superpowers choose sides and traditional alliances crumble, individual courage becomes the only currency that matters.
Washington won’t act.
Beijing won’t stop.
And the Pacific is about to burn.
