George Th--is leaving behind the world he has known to serve his country. As his nation faces off against a new type of foe, he will face combat in the far corners of the world. He will return home a soldier--decorated, tested, honored. But he does not feel at home upon his return. The more he sees of the America he has been serving, the more he questions it, and the more he realizes that he has come home to the subtlest kind of nightmare. America's freedoms are gone. The republic has been swept away, empire rests in its place, and hardly anyone has noticed. He must face the choice of whether to resist the changes that have been wrought while he served abroad or to go on as A Soldier for the Empire...