American Rift

Book Two of the American series follows the moment foreign ministries in Berlin, Ottawa, Tokyo and beyond quietly reclassified the United States from fixed point to variable, and activated contingency protocols that were never reversed. Henry Goodstone treats the alliance, and the reliability behind it, as an inheritance eighty years in the making and now being drawn down. Alongside the spent trust runs the domestic split: wealth flowing upward, the middle hollowing out, a country deciding whose gains count. The rift is both the world pulling back and the ground opening at home.