Showdown
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THE NEW AMERICAN CIVIL WAR HAS BEGUN...
It's brother against brother, citizen against citizen, soldier against soldier—in a war for the soul of America
All across the nation, well-equipped militias are training for war. They know the hated Federals will be attacking, hell-bent on taking away their guns and their freedom. On the other side, the government knows the militias will be ready to fight to the death for their independence, their land and their family values. At the next Ruby Ridge, both sides are bringing an army.
Leading the federal forces is General Douglas Freeman, the hard-nosed, flamboyant soldier who commanded American forces during WW III. When war breaks out, Freeman's B-52s bomb militia positions in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. Militia and government forces square off in a massive tank battle in the Alvord Desert of southeastern Oregon. The oil fields of Bakersfield, key railroad links in Wyoming, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina, are all targets of militia sabotage. Freeman launches the 82nd Airborne in a headlong attack on militia forces gathered near Mount St. Helens. At the mouth of the Columbia River on the Washington-Oregon border, the two armies fight a climactic battle for the four-mile-long Astoria bridge.
SHOWDOWN is the heart-pounding scenario of a war that could be coming . . . a war in which both sides possess the most advanced and terrifying weapons in the history of combat. . . .
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Thriller writer Ian Slater lives with his wife in Vancouver, Canada. Born in Australia in 1941, he worked for the Australian navy as a cipher clerk in that country's Department of External Affairs, and as a defense officer in the Australian Joint Intelligence Bureau during the Cold War. After leaving Australia for further adventures he became a marine geology technician with New Zealand's Institute of Oceanography, undertaking many voyages in the Tasman Sea, the southwest Pacific and Sub Antarctic, and later in the northeastern Pacific for the Institute of Oceanography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. In 1977 he earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree in political science, and as author, playwright, and lecturer has taught a wide variety of courses in the humanities.
