In Mobilize , vivid characterization and crackling dialogue carry the story. The U.S Congress, lulled by the near absence of terrorist acts by the scattered remnants of al-Qaeda, votes draconian reductions in the armed forces. After the assassination of US President Downs, incoming President Wyatt calls for massive mobilization. An Islamic fanatic, the self styled Suleyman III, the Modern Magnificent after the sixteenth century Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, introduces il-Dauli, "the Empire," uniting al-Qaeda remnants across southern Asia. He boasts a successful attack on USS Stennis in the...

In Mobilize , vivid characterization and crackling dialogue carry the story. The U.S Congress, lulled by the near absence of terrorist acts by the scattered remnants of al-Qaeda, votes draconian reductions in the armed forces. After the assassination of US President Downs, incoming President Wyatt calls for massive mobilization. An Islamic fanatic, the self styled Suleyman III, the Modern Magnificent after the sixteenth century Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, introduces il-Dauli, "the Empire," uniting al-Qaeda remnants across southern Asia. He boasts a successful attack on USS Stennis in the...