From two award-winning former military officers, a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that depicts a naval showdown between the United States and China in the South China Sea in 2034 - and its evolution into a nightmarish global conflagration. March 12, 2034 Commodore US Navy Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship and controls the guided-missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones, conducting a routine freedom of navigation patrol in the South China Sea when her ship spots an unidentified trawler in apparent distress with smoke rising from the bridge. That same day, USMC Major Chris "Wedge" Mitchell flies an F-35E Lightning over the Strait of Hormuz, testing new stealth technology, performing risky maneuvers in Iranian airspace. By the end of this day, Wedge will be in Iranian captivity, and Sarah Hunt's destroyer will lie at the bottom of the sea, sunk by the Chinese fleet. Iran and China have clearly coordinated their actions, which include the use of powerful new types of cyber weapons that make American ships and aircraft defenseless. Overnight, America's faith in the strategic superiority of its military was shattered. A new, terrifying era is approaching. So begins a disturbingly plausible work of speculative fiction, co-written by an award-winning novelist, Marine veteran and former NATO commander, a legendary admiral who spent much of his career strategically outmaneuvering America's toughest adversaries. Written with a superb combination of geopolitical precision and credible psychologism, 2034 takes us into the minds of a host of characters from around the world—Americans, Chinese, Iranians, Russians, Indians—as a series of self-inflicted miscalculations on all sides leads the world into an intensifying international storm. In the end, China and the United States will have to pay a staggering price that will forever change the global balance of power. Everything about 2034 is a creative extrapolation of modern facts, combined with the authors' years of work at the highest and most secret levels of national security. Sometimes it takes a brilliant work of fiction to shed light on the dire warnings: 2034 is too close, and this cautionary tale presents the reader with a grim but possible future that must be avoided at all costs.