"The uneasy peace that has existed for more than 100 years between the Confederate States and the United States may be over...." -- Civil War Times
A riveting alternate history in the tradition of THE GUNS OF THE SOUTH and SS-GB.
The South won at Gettysburg in 1863. Today the Mason-Dixon Wall divides Union and Confederacy . . . and many other things are different from the world we know. There was no Russian Revolution and no World War Two. The Wright brothers died in fiery crashes, and gigantic Zeppelins cruise the skies.
Nevertheless, a shaky peace has prevailed between the North and South. For decades now, steaming endlessly up and down the North American coast from the Antilles to Nova Scotia, the Great Line has been the guarantor of the policy (first formulated by Winston Churchill in 1955) of "containment" of the expansionist Yankees and their no less aggressive Czarist Russian allies. Ten time larger than the primitive dreadnoughts Jellicoe and von Scheer maneuvered in 1916, each modern line-of-battle ship takes seventeen years to build and strains the resources of its sponsor government.
Only now . . . that ring of guns and steel may be broken.
For now the Union has a powerful new weapon, tested on Yokohama during the just-concluded Yankee-Japanese War. Unless the Confederacy can obtain its secret for the Empire, the hundred and thirty-year balance of terror may escalate into global disaster.
Only Colonel Aubrey Lee Quidley IV, Confederate States Army Intelligence, knows of the Shiloh Project's existence. Until the leak. In a police-state "Dixie Socialist" South, closed off behind barbed wire, there are those who want disaster for their own ends. The vengeful "conditionally emancipated" black Resistance . . . the fascist, genocidal Kuklos League . . . a beautiful Yankee mole inside the highest levels of the Richmond Government.
Together, they'll turn Quidley's mission into a treacherous triangle of conspiracy, betrayal, and chaos.
Whoever wins, the Confederacy will never be the same. . . .
About the Author
Millions of copies of Dave Poyer's nearly fifty books are in print, including THE MED, THE GULF, THE CIRCLE, THE PASSAGE, TOMAHAWK, CHINA SEA, BLACK STORM, THE COMMAND, THE THREAT, KOREA STRAIT, THE WEAPON, THE CRISIS, THE TOWERS, THE CRUISER, TIPPING POINT, ONSLAUGHT, HUNTER KILLER, DEEP WAR, OVERTHROW, VIOLENT PEACE, ARCTIC SEA, and THE ACADEMY, USA Today best-selling novels of the modern Navy and Marine Corps; and historical fiction set during the Civil War. Also, see his Hemlock County and the Tiller Galloway series of diving adventures, HATTERAS BLUE, BAHAMAS BLUE, LOUISIANA BLUE, DOWN TO A SUNLESS SEA, and YUCATAN BLUE. His work has been translated into Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian, and Spanish. Poyer's fiction has been required reading in the U.S. Naval Academy's Literature of the Sea course, along with that of Conrad and Melville. A founding editor of the New Virginia Review, he's currently a contributing editor of Shipmate Magazine and teaches fiction and memoir at the Ossabaw Writers Retreat.
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