Bum Rush the Commons (paperback book)

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A water war is coming as drought grips a deadly strangle hold on much of the world. While most fight to protect this precious basic element of life, forces fueled by greed join to build a world ripe for the next great plague.

Max Flanery, a retired war veteran and respected leader is enjoying the well-earned freedom of civilian life when she is thrust into the frontline of a Chinese military invasion. While leading a Great Lakes water diversion pipeline project, Max and her crew are taken prisoner by Chinese military paratroopers. Max trades wits and fists with the stealthy, soulless leader of the Chinese invaders General Chin Feng.

Tou Lee, a Hmong immigrant with a tragic past, is on a hunting trip with his son when they are captured and taken prisoner. They join Max and her crew in an explosive escape and heroic chase through the northern forest. In pursuit are hundreds of soldiers desperate to catch them before they make it out of the occupied zone to freedom.

Max’s military savvy and Tou’s knowledge of the North County fight to keep them from the brutality that could ultimately catch and destroy them.

Hundreds of miles south outside the occupied zone, Max’s husband Eric Flannery, a displaced newspaper journalist, works his contacts to develop a news story to expose China’s unconventional rise to power and a U.S. leader’s decades of corruption. Politicians will topple, martial law will emerge and a theater of war will rise up on American soil for the first time since the Civil War as we enter the era of the water wars.