About the book: 2011 / After the disaster of 2017, the world has changed beyond recognition. The United States, split in two, lost its superpower status. Russia lost the Far East. A merciless civil war is blazing in the ruins of a collapsed China. The UN has degenerated into a corrupt commercial structure working for transnational corporations. The world is teetering on the brink of the Third World War, the detonator of which is the rivalry for control of the Arctic - the last storehouse of minerals. Having suffered defeat at sea and in the air, the Americans decide to use nuclear weapons.