Death of a Golden State

<p><strong>California is breaking away. One woman has to decide whether she'll break with it...or die trying.</strong></p><p>Set in a near-future seceding California <em>Death of a Golden State</em> is a high-tension military and political thriller about a homegrown coup rogue National Guard units and a war for America's future fought on its own streets.</p><p>As tanks choke the freeways choppers vanish from exercises and emergency broadcasts declare martial law the Golden State becomes a battlefield where the enemy wears the same uniform as the heroes.</p><p>Colonel Chazz Silver battle-scarred from Iraq and now Chief of Staff of the California Army National Guard thinks she's investigating a routine irregularity.</p><p>Instead she stumbles into a covert operation: a charismatic governor plotting secession a logistics-obsessed general quietly positioning armor and secret arrest lists bound for a resurrected Manzanar.</p><p>When Chazz refuses to look away her own chain of command turns on her and surviving the next 24 hours means out-flying Black Hawks outgunning corrupt cops and outsmarting men who know every move she'll make-because she trained them.</p><p>Hunted across bases highways and deserts Chazz must choose who to trust: a Marine lover with classified connections an airman mechanic who overhears too much or the D.C. establishment that's already written California off.</p><p>Every alliance is a gamble; every hesitation costs lives.</p><p>And as improvised rebels strike tanks in San Francisco and federal forces hover at the edge of the map one colonel's next decision could ignite a civil war-or stop it cold.</p><p>Perfect for fans of <em>The Hunt for Red October </em>this is a ruthless boots-on-the-ground coup story where loyalty love and duty collide under the rotors of attack helicopters-and the final order Chazz gives may save the Union...or bury it with her.</p>