Book description
CHANGE IS ON THE AIR: The generals of the Middle Kingdom await the
decision of the emperor. The campaign to secure the border from China
to Iraq has reached a strange impasse. Two blood enemies - Arabs &
Jews - have united against their common cause. But with the lives of
thousands at his whim, the exalted Tsao Ch'un, the Son of Heaven,
cannot decide. Destroy the Middle East in one blinding flash? Or take
another path? BUT THE WAY IS UNCLEAR: In the court of Tsao Ch'un, men
of power have become smiling lackeys, whose graces conceal their fear,
or their ambition. A man that can be trusted absolutely is a rare
thing. And so, with his family held hostage by the empire, General
Jiang Lei finds himself appointed to a special task: the orchestration
of the last great war against the West. The total dominion of America.
WAR APPROACHES: But life in the world of levels continues. No hint of
war, or want, or discontent can infiltrate the oppressive, ordered
society that replaces the world Jake Reed once knew. Since the first
airships rolled over the horizon, nothing has been the same. His new
life means new thinking, new customs, a new way of behaving, &
with his every move scrutinized, Jake can only serve the bureaucracy
of new China. But he is not the only citizen who feels discontent with
the anodyne new order.
