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ALSO BY ELLIOT ACKERMAN Red Dress in Black White Places and Names Waiting for - photo 1
ALSO BY ELLIOT ACKERMAN

Red Dress in Black & White

Places and Names

Waiting for Eden

Dark at the Crossing

Istanbul Letters

Green on Blue

ALSO BY ADMIRAL JAMES STAVRIDIS

Sailing True North

Sea Power

The Accidental Admiral

Partnership for the Americas

Destroyer Captain

Coauthored by Admiral James Stavridis

Command at Sea

The Leaders Bookshelf

Watch Officers Guide

Division Officers Guide

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Copyright 2021 by Elliot Ackerman and James Stavridis

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Ackerman, Elliot, author. | Stavridis, James, author.

Title: 2034 : a novel of the next world war / Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret.).

Other titles: Twenty thirty-four

Description: New York: Penguin Press, 2021.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020020779 (print) | LCCN 2020020780 (ebook) | ISBN 9781984881250 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781984881267 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Naval battles.Fiction. | Cyberspace operations (Military science)Fiction. | GSAFD: War stories.

Classification: LCC PS3601.C5456 A615 2021 (print) | LCC PS3601.C5456 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020020779

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020020780

ISBN 9780593298688 (export)

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

Herman Melville

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The Wn Rui Incident

14:47 March 12, 2034 (GMT+8)

South China Sea

It surprised her still, even after twenty-four years, the way from horizon to horizon the vast expanse of ocean could in an instant turn completely calm, taut as a linen pulled across a table. She imagined that if a single needle were dropped from a height, it would slip through all the fathoms of water to the seabed, where, undisturbed by any current, it would rest on its point. How many times over her career had she stood as she did now, on the bridge of a ship, observing this miracle of stillness? A thousand times? Two thousand? On a recent sleepless night, she had studied her logbooks and totaled up all the days she had spent traversing the deep ocean, out of sight of land. It added up to nearly nine years. Her memory darted back and forth across those long years, to her watch-standing days as an ensign on the wood-slatted decks of a minesweeper with its bronchial diesel engines, to her mid-career hiatus in special warfare spent in the brown waters of the world, to this day, with these three sleek Arleigh Burkeclass destroyers under her command cutting a south-by-southwest wake at eighteen knots under a relentless and uncaring sun.

Her small flotilla was twelve nautical miles off Mischief Reef in the long-disputed Spratly Islands on a euphemistically titled freedom of navigation patrol. She hated that term. Like so much in military life it was designed to belie the truth of their mission, which was a provocation, plain and simple. These were indisputably international waters, at least according to established conventions of maritime law, but the Peoples Republic of China claimed them as territorial seas. Passing through the much-disputed Spratlys with her flotilla was the legal equivalent of driving donuts into your neighbors prized front lawn after he moves his fence a little too far onto your property. And the Chinese had been doing that for decades now, moving the fence a little further, a little further, and a little further still, until they would claim the entire South Pacific.

So... time to donut drive their yard.

Maybe we should simply call it that, she thought, the hint of a smirk falling across her carefully curated demeanor. Lets call it a donut drive instead of a freedom of navigation patrol. At least then my sailors would understand what the hell were doing out here.

She glanced behind her, toward the fantail of her flagship, the John Paul Jones. Extending in its wake, arrayed in a line of battle over the flat horizon, were her other two destroyers, the Carl Levin and Chung-Hoon. She was the commodore, in charge of these three warships, as well as another four still back in their home port of San Diego. She stood at the pinnacle of her career, and when she stared off in the direction of her other ships, searching for them in the wake of her flagship, she couldnt help but see herself out there, as clearly as if she were standing on that tabletop of perfectly calm ocean, appearing and disappearing into the shimmer. Herself as she once was: the youthful Ensign Sarah Hunt. And then herself as she was now: the older, wiser Captain Sarah Hunt, commodore of Destroyer Squadron 21Solomons Onward, their motto since the Second World War; Rampant Lions, the name they gave themselves. On the deck plates of her seven ships she was affectionately known as the Lion Queen.

She stood for a while, staring pensively into the ships wake, finding and losing an image of herself in the water. Shed been given the news from the medical board yesterday, right before shed pulled in all lines and sailed out of Yokosuka Naval Station. The envelope was tucked in her pocket. The thought of the paper made her left leg ache, right where the bone had set poorly, the ache followed by a predictable lightning bolt of pins and needles that began at the base of her spine. The old injury had finally caught up with her. The medical board had had its say. This would be the Lion Queens last voyage. Hunt couldnt quite believe it.

The light changed suddenly, almost imperceptibly. Hunt observed an oblong shadow passing across the smooth mantle of the sea, whose surface was now interrupted by a flicker of wind, forming into a ripple. She glanced above her, to where a thin cloud, the only one in the sky, made its transit. Then the cloud vanished, dissolving into mist, as it failed to make passage beyond the relentless late-winter sun. The water grew perfectly still once again.

Her thoughts were interrupted by the hollow clatter of steps quickly and lightly making their way up the ladder behind her. Hunt checked her watch. The ships captain, Commander Jane Morris, was, as usual, running behind schedule.


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10:51 March 12, 2034 (GMT+4:30)

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