It may be hard to imagine. But what if conflicting policy interests led to two allies becoming enemies? In the realm of speculative fiction, this is a very unique and original conceptual undertaking, and that makes it worth reading. Especially in regards to foreign powers taking sides in a potential future balkanization of the U.S., it behooves us to consider them as potential adversaries. All of them.
“No two countries that both have McDonald’s go to war against each other.”
Thomas L. Friedman: The Lexus and the Olive Tree
– What if the theory were to be chewed up and spat out, and two global players fought it out?
– Countries inextricably linked by their histories and a common language.
– Two former friends and allies.
– What if the United States and Great Britain went to war?
A new American President, a jaded British Prime Minister, two men from very different backgrounds, two men with an intense hatred for one another. The Call is about hubris, but no less the humane, as the battleground of Syria, the terrible human suffering and a desire to help, turns old and new worlds against each other.
When the US carrier strike group headed by the Dwight. D. Eisenhower engages the new British carrier Queen Elizabeth and her support ships in the Persian Gulf, it is a confrontation many had played out in Internet chat rooms and in pubs, and in the most rare of contingency sessions at the Admiralty and the Pentagon.
The novel can, on the one hand, be enjoyed as an action story, or it can ask awkward questions about the nature of our peaceful lives. Was there not peace one day in Raqqa and war the next? Is it inconceivable that mainland Britain might one day be the target of drone strikes or special forces raids?
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