Dont venture into the future without having read this book ANDREW ROBERTSIt is twenty years on from the nuclear war between the US and China that brought down the old world order and the American president has held power for over a decade Suddenly he collapses in the middle of an address to the nation A coverup ensues the administration announces his death and the country descends into civil warEverything points to a remote assassination made possible by a radical leap forward in artificial intelligence The trail leads to an outpost in the Amazon rainforest the last known whereabouts of the tech visionary who predicted this world transforming breakthrough As the worlds great powers struggle to outmanoeuvre one another in this Great Game of scientific discovery an American crisis threatens to spiral into a global one2054 is an explosive thriller and a realworld cautionary tale about the path we are on from two former military officers and awardwinning authors who have seen the futureA compelling terrifying and totally plausible thriller of future world history and calamity SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIOREThis kind of fiction can induce a kind of sublime awe at the complexity of the global networks in which were enmeshed HARI KUNZRU THE NEW YORK TIMESA satisfying combination of two very different things quotchilling vision of things to comequot and quotpageturning beach readquot DAILY TELEGRAPH