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China and Russia quietly seed the United States with spies, soldiers, and support networks while Iran and North Korea keep Western attention divided.
Iranian chief spymaster Javad Shir-Del helps drive an audacious anti-Western plan while carrying a private revenge motive that his own side does not fully understand.
Before the shooting starts, Gale Washington has a hunch that something is wrong, but the warning does not break through in time to stop the attack already forming inside the country.
National watch-standers remain at their consoles while the country celebrates Independence Day, creating a prewar warning window built around a day when attention is naturally elsewhere.
The Warlock runs an unseen black-budget effort intended to disrupt the hostile alliance before its full plan can mature.
Economic and logistics systems become the Warlock’s preferred targets because disabling movement, communications, and commerce can cripple an alliance without an attributable conventional strike.
A series of orchestrated deceptions pushes China toward Russia and leaves Russian leaders accusing Turkey of foul play.
A coordinated EMP strike and internal attacks collapse the electrical grid and strip away communications, technology, and normal command systems across the opening battlefield.
The EMP attack is not confined to the United States; Book 2 explicitly describes America and Europe being blinded in the same opening crisis.
The loss of power is only the first move; coordinated attacks on civilian populations follow the EMP and turn infrastructure collapse into deliberate terror and invasion.
Nuclear strikes hit city centers as the invasion escalates beyond sabotage, blackout, and infiltration.
Russian naval forces move into the Atlantic as the land war on the American homeland becomes overt.
From orbit, Joey Washington and her crewmates see North America and Europe plunge into darkness while bright flashes bloom on the Indian subcontinent.
Joey Washington is stranded aboard a damaged International Space Station while the catastrophe unfolds below.
With the station crippled and Earth below in crisis, Joey and her fellow astronauts abandon the ISS and commit to an emergency return far from Joey’s family.
The planned landing zone for Joey Washington’s return lies in Kazakhstan, placing her on the wrong side of a collapsing global order from her family in Virginia.
Gunnery Sergeant An Nguyen and his Marines experience the blackout at Fort Knox as the opening strike turns a secure military environment into an immediate survival and mobility problem.
An Nguyen’s element receives the mission to move toward Washington and make contact with surviving command authority.
The M1A1 Abrams nicknamed Alice becomes one of the few reliable means for Nguyen’s Marines to move through the disabled country.
Ordered toward Washington, Nguyen’s Marines use Alice, one of the few vehicles still running, to fight through a country transformed by the outage while Nguyen worries about his parents in Virginia.
Gale and Layla Washington are in Northern Virginia as a neighborhood holiday gathering is transformed into the first hours of a survival fight.
The Northern Virginia storyline moves from shock into improvised local defense as residents confront a war already inside their communities.
A government driver on the final day before retirement is forced to protect the U.S. Transportation Secretary when a Christmas Eve ambush erupts around them.
Executive-protection agents in Detroit must keep their principal alive after the grid fails and predatory threats emerge from the darkness.
On an isolated family farm, wolves—literal and human—stalk the occupants through the darkness.
Across the country, military installations prepare for an opening night in which the normal base-security and support environment is collapsing.
Chinese soldiers disguised as circus performers position themselves inside Reno before revealing their role in the wider attack.
The Operation Wŭjù force seizes Reno, controlling a city that guards a fast east-west route from the San Francisco Bay toward the Rockies.
The Chinese force establishes its Reno headquarters in the Ormsby Casino.
Home-grown Reno insurgents calling themselves the Sons of Carson organize against the occupation force.
CASEVAC Pedros fight to hold strategic Pacific islands associated with the beginning of the wider global conflict.
The IRENE story file follows Pedro, Zen, Tekk, and embedded observer Julio Rosas inside a military-response thread that feeds directly into Book Three.
Catastrophic Success sits inside the anthology chain that feeds directly into Raise the Red.
A strategic Indian Ocean island becomes one of the anthology’s direct military fronts, with Rob Province serving as the story’s antagonist.
Chinese tanks roll out of Baltimore’s ports, turning the hidden invasion into an unmistakable conventional armored campaign.
The Baltimore armored force advances toward Mount Weather, where the acting president and surviving military command are protected underground.
The acting U.S. president and what remains of the national military command are sheltered at Mount Weather while the invasion closes in.
A major fight at Point of Rocks Bridge involves paratroopers, Russians, and Chinese armor and becomes a scar carried directly into Raise the Red.
Joey has information that may change the battle, but the command bunker that needs it is itself under armored threat.
Major Alex Frey inherits responsibility for U.S. Embassy personnel as the global crisis reaches Zambia on Christmas Day.
Major Frey makes the high-risk decision to move his people toward Rwanda rather than wait for a broken situation to improve.
Chinese paratroopers drop onto a South Carolina interstate as the invasion reaches the Spare Parts Club’s home front.
Six disabled combat veterans, Trigger, and an armed younger companion crowd into the last running car and head away from the collapsing interstate.
The Club moves into rural South Carolina, where the invasion begins turning into a small-town occupation problem.
An Iranian Revolutionary Guard kill team pursues the Spare Parts Club to settle an old score.
The Club’s skills become one of the things standing between a small Southern town and the opening act of occupation.
A homemade kill-dozer becomes part of the Club’s improvised answer to occupation and pursuit.
Major Frey leads U.S. Embassy personnel onto an approximately 1,400-mile overland escape toward Rwanda.
Frey’s convoy is hounded by ambushes, hostile environments, and enemies linked to memories he thought he had already paid for.
The wider anthology war reaches Antarctica, where the Warlock initiates revenge against Chinese interests.
Members of a Louisiana VFW turn their veterans’ experience toward local resistance as the national crisis reaches them.
An Illinois gun-shop employee moves through personal loss and into a new purpose as the country changes around him.
A cagey man in the West Virginia hollers holds information tied to a nuclear facility in upstate New York.
A hunter in Washington State discovers that the changed security environment has reversed the normal relationship between predator and prey.
The anthology takes the wider conflict behind the Demilitarized Zone in North Korea.
Rick Pearson commands a defensive fight around Richards Bay, South Africa, in a battle framed as a modern Rorke’s Drift.
A U.S. embassy in West Africa comes under siege as the global conflict reaches diplomatic facilities.
Polish resistance fighters mount a fierce defense against overwhelming odds as the war expands across Europe.
In Mombasa, unlikely allies meet in a bar and debate what to do next while the world burns around them.
A desperate man crosses scorching African terrain carrying a mysterious box toward a rendezvous that could change events.
A rustic cabin in the Wyoming mountains hides more than it appears to, opening the thread that later grows into Lance Bear Wolf’s resistance campaign.
Lance Bear Wolf and Elle Parker’s Shadow Tier continuity becomes part of the Mongol Moon Wyoming front.
The national attack becomes an occupation war in Wyoming as Russian forces move into a state whose plains, agriculture, missile fields, and mountain corridors make it strategically valuable.
Brigadier General Lance Bear Wolf and his team organize the Wyoming Army of Resistance against Russian and Chinese occupation forces.
The Wyoming campaign spreads across wind-swept plains and the state’s strategic missile country.
Wolf’s resistance moves beyond survival and begins direct rescue operations under occupation, including violent basement rescues described in the public campaign brief.
The insurgency escalates into deliberate raids against Russian strongholds, turning occupation infrastructure into a recurring target set.
Wolf’s team turns captured enemy capability against the occupation by stealing missiles from under Russian control.
The resistance attacks the logistics network sustaining Russian positions, shifting the campaign from isolated tactical wins toward systematic disruption.
Tactical success becomes a movement as Wolf’s team rallies partisans and turns scattered opposition into a wider rebellion.
The Wyoming fight reaches blood-soaked snow in occupied Cheyenne.
Wolf and Elle fight a second war over morale, legitimacy, and public perception as the campaign expands beyond bullets and bombs.
Success creates its own danger as the Wyoming campaign unfolds under the looming possibility of nuclear escalation.
Lance Bear Wolf’s rebellion grows beyond Wyoming and spreads across the Rocky Mountain region.
A wounded survivor wakes with severe injuries and reconstructs memories of the Point of Rocks battle: Russians, paratroopers, an Airborne sniper, Chinese tanks, and the blast that ended the remembered fight.
Occupation hardens through the first winter, turning the initial shock of invasion into sustained deprivation, loss, and coercion.
Surviving soldiers, spies, civilians, and neighbors turned guerrillas begin treating resistance as an organized campaign rather than isolated survival.
People who began the war in very different roles converge into guerrilla networks operating under occupation.
The resistance begins moving toward counterattack, accepting that survival alone will leave the occupation intact.
