Tom Bauer Chronicles: A New Union - Couverture souple

Reid Mason, Alexander

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798275087413

Editeur : Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

The epic conclusion to the Tom Bauer Saga, where the hardest battle isn't winning the war, but building the peace.

America's Second Civil War has ended, but the fragile peace hangs by a thread. Tom Bauer, the CIA operator turned security coordinator, must protect the historic peace assembly from a final conspiracy designed to restart the conflict. When his longtime nemesis Specter orchestrates a coordinated attack on the UN complex, Tom faces an impossible choice: handle the threat covertly and risk casualties, or recommend cancellation and watch democracy's last chance collapse.

In the aftermath of violence that claims twenty-five lives, Tom must navigate an even more dangerous battlefield, the seduction of political power. As factions compete to recruit him for the provisional government, Tom realizes that his greatest service to democracy may be refusing the authority his actions seem to have earned.

Alongside his partner Sarah Mitchell, the journalist whose comprehensive war documentation becomes the foundation for national reconciliation, Tom witnesses the painful work of building democratic institutions from civil war's ruins. Constitutional conventions debate fundamental principles. Truth commissions confront uncomfortable history. First elections test whether peaceful transfer of power remains possible.

A New Union delivers visceral action, complex moral dilemmas, and the intimate human dimension of national recovery. From firefights in the UN General Assembly Hall to quiet moments acknowledging the 300,000 dead, the novel explores what democracy costs, why imperfect peace beats endless war, and how warriors become citizens without betraying their service.

The saga concludes with hard-won wisdom: democracy survives not through single heroic moments but through sustained commitment from ordinary people choosing preservation over easier alternatives. Tom and Sarah's journey from protectors to participants embodies America's own transformation, scarred, imperfect, but demonstrating that democratic possibility endures when people refuse to surrender it.

For readers who believe democracy is worth defending, even when the cost is terrible and the outcome uncertain.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798275087413
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 415
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