Death of a Golden State - Muller, Robert J.

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Résumé :
When loyalty becomes treason, one soldier must rewrite the rules of war. California burns. Tanks block freeways. Internment camps reopen. And the architect of America's unraveling wears the governor's seal. Colonel Chazz Silver-decorated combat veteran and rising star of the California Army National Guard-discovers twelve battle tanks missing from Camp Roberts. What begins as a routine investigation explodes into a constitutional crisis when her lover, political strategist Tom Pe?a, lets slip a deadly truth: Governor Chip Sanchez plans to sever the Golden State from the Union. Now Silver must outmaneuver the entire state militia as Sacramento's coup transforms freeways into war zones and former comrades into executioners. Betrayal cuts deepest from those who share your bed. As tanks roll through San Francisco and combat vessels shell I-5, Chazz becomes California's most wanted fugitive. Her arsenal? An AWOL Air Guard sergeant with a talent for sabotage. A cartel queen hellbent on burning her brother's enemies. A Marine ex-love whose final act could save-or doom-the nation. And a grounded Marine pilot who has the key to taking back the state and the guts to do it. From ambushes at military bases to midnight escapes from Manzanar's resurrection, Chazz wages a guerrilla war across California's crumbling infrastructure, questioning every oath she's ever sworn. The ultimate high-stakes thriller where the front lines are everywhere. Robert J. Muller delivers a powder-keg narrative blending Designated Survivor's political intrigue with Jack Reacher's relentless action. Authentic military detail collides with chilling plausibility as Chazz Silver's race to save democracy forces impossible choices:Build a resistance force to take back the Capitol Trust a cartel assassin over her commanding officer Pull the trigger on the man who still owns her heart Perfect for fans of:Brad Taylor's spec-ops authenticity Gregg Hurwitz's moral complexity Netflix's *House of Cards* political conspiracy Death of a Golden State doesn't just blur lines between hero and traitor-it vaporizes them. Will Chazz's revolution preserve the Union... or ignite the Second American Civil War? The truth hides in plain sight on every California license plate: Eureka now means Run....

Biographie:
every hesitation costs lives. 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. Perfect for fans of The Hunt for Red October, 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....

Sommaire:
California is breaking away. One woman has to decide whether she'll break with it...or die trying. Set in a near-future, seceding California, Death of a Golden State 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Every alliance is a gamble...