How do you fight a war where the enemy's foot soldiers are your own citizens?
May, 2029. In Panama, the US and China face off as the USS Carney is sent to prevent Chinese warships armed with hypersonic missiles from making a transit through the Panama Canal.
In London, a suspicious van is dumped on Tower Bridge, shutting down peak hour traffic for hours as the bomb squad investigates. In Washington DC, a fire in a dumpster at the back of the Capitol Power Plant puts the plant out of action for a week. In Lyon, France, there is panic in the metro system as smoke bombs are lit inside train carriages. In Detroit, teenager Tayla Aaronson, is approached inside a computer game by another player offering her $10,000 for an act of 'vandalism.' Are these random events? Or the first attacks in a new world war?
Officer in Charge of the Foreign Interference Taskforce, Lieutenant Siku Smith, is convinced there’s a connection. At a time of high stakes international tension, someone is using low-level acts of sabotage to groom ordinary citizens - often teens - to conduct acts of sabotage . A hybrid offensive is underway, why is he the only one who sees it?
He’s not. Aboard the US Coast Guard Cutter USCG Calhoun, Ensign Melissa Mayeux is monitoring the movements of a Liberian flagged freighter as it veers through a naval restricted area. It’s the second freighter in a month making a detour through the zone where US companies are laying new undersea data cables. Someone is testing their responses, she's sure. So why is no one doing anything about it?
In Poland, Captain Anthony ‘K-4’ Kellog, V-280 Dark Valor pilot, prepares to insert special operators from 3rd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces, deep inside Belarussian territory. Their objective is the recovery of a US agent with intelligence on a planned shadow offensive against NATO. It's called Payback Day. But is it a single event, or the start of a campaign?
Fresh from Introductory Fighter Jet training, young Royal Australian Air Force pilot, Flying Officer Karen ‘Bunny’ O’Hare is attached to a joint US-Australian program to develop a navalized version of the Ghost Bat drone. Running flight tests aboard the USS America, she finds herself on the front line as America goes toe to toe with the Chinese navy carrier Fujian and the drones are placed under the command of US Marine Corps Aviation. Is O'Hare's time on the test program over, or is the real test still ahead of her?
As the missiles start flying in Panama, and a hybrid war breaks out across the US and Europe, leaders of nations across the globe are forced to address the question: how do you strike back against an unknown enemy determined to hide in the shadows?
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