Foreign and Domestic: Campaign II--Battle for the Middle States by Michael Mannske is a sweeping war-thriller about the looming battle between the United States and the United Nations.
Foreign and Domestic: Campaign II--Battle for the Middle States by Michael Mannske is just one part of an edge-of-your-seat war-thriller series that explores the impact of war, the overreaching power of a president and the love between a husband and wife. Somewhere in the near future, the UN has invaded America, battling the United States on its own soil and setting up brutal internment camps. Ex-Air Force pilot John “Spiderman” Trent joins up with a secret force of military patriots to battle this encroaching evil, but he soon finds his Sovereign Forces on the run and his wife captured and interred. His own life hanging in the balance, Trent must smuggle a brilliant scientist across dangerous enemy lines and somehow convince an entire U.S. fighter squadron to defect and join in the fight. Can he, his wife—and the country—survive? And if they do, what kind of America will they face?
Dubbed “near fiction” by author Mannske, Foreign and Domestic catapults between the futuristic scenarios of a country torn apart by factions even as it remains grounded in current events. This is the story of a bold new breed of Americans, hardy souls who are willing to rise up and sacrifice their homes, their families and their livelihoods for an idea and a dream: The Constitution of the United States. Moving and thought-provoking, the novel is also incredibly entertaining. Full of pulse-pounding action, Foreign and Domestic explores the price of freedom and the ultimate sacrifice it demands.
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Civilization’s greatest conflicts begin with the smallest of things. A pretty face incited the Trojan War. A scrawny Bosnian teenager sparked World War I. So it was with the US–UN War. It was started by a six-year-old Cuban boy named Elián Gonzáles.
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Land of the tea and the home of the crepes: Welcome to Michael Mannske's nightmare (and book)
Ever wondered what would happen if the UN invaded the U.S., and France occupied the Upper Midwest? Plymouth resident Michael Mannske has. In fact, he's written a book about it—a "novel of freedom," to be precise—that's set to hit Amazon.com (he's self-publishing) on July 4th.
Inspired by "talk radio" and "history," the author explains, he has set his high-stakes thriller "in the near future," during "the coming US-UN war." Although the book is Mannske's debut, it is part two of a planned trilogy. As we join the action, the nation's president has ceded power to the UN via the "Declaration of Dependence" and the evil internationalists have invaded our shores. A rebel force of true patriots in the "Middle States" (read: Bible Belt) is doing its best to repel the foreign intruders.
Sadly, Minnesota, just a little east of center, is a French protectorate.
"I'm trying to ask a lot of questions," Mannske says, explaining the thinking behind Foreign and Domestic: Campaign II - Battle of the Middle States. "The revolutionaries reached their tipping point at a 14 percent tax on tea. Are there still people out there like that? Where is our tipping point?"
Written by Jonathan Kaminsky at June 22, 2007 02:28 PM
