Friendship Games

<p><strong>The Persian Gulf erupts.</strong></p><p>When a U.S. aircraft carrier explodes and sinks off Bahrain Washington blames Tehran. Hours later Iranian-backed militants strike the U.S. Navy base in Manama and the Bahraini royal palace. Retaliatory American airstrikes follow pushing the region toward all-out war.</p><p><em>Friendship Games</em> is a modern take on the USS <em>Maine</em> incident that launched the Spanish-American War in 1898-except this time the spark threatens to ignite a global conflict.</p><p>Facing what it believes is an existential threat Iran unleashes a desperate preemptive blitz: missiles rain down on U.S. bases and armored columns surge into neighboring states to deny America a foothold for invasion.</p><p>Caught in the storm are U.S. Navy SEALs and a young sailor Thew Bryson forced into a desperate fight for survival as they flee across borders with Iranian forces closing in. In Washington Vice President George Daddy Longlegs Wartmann maneuvers through a collapsing chain of command determined to see the fight through while the President hesitates.</p><p>From the palaces of the Gulf to the corridors of Washington to soldiers on the ground <em>Friendship Games</em> is a taut unflinching geopolitical thriller-where one misstep could set the world ablaze. <em>Friendship Games</em> marks the explosive beginning of the Wartmann Series a sweeping series that explores the perilous intersection of politics technology and human ambition in the twenty-first century.</p>