Trigger Point: A Novel

It's 2018. Tom Knowles, a moderate Nevada Repubilcan, is the American president hoping to lead his country into a new era of stability and growth. He sees his change to put his stamp on world affairs when thirty-two American aid workers are massacred in Uganda by a terrorist organization. Knowles opts for military intervention even though China considers Uganda its African sphere of influence, and warn him to keep out. Six weeks later, stock prices on Wall Street are falling. Amid rumors of insolvency, a major investment bank leads the rout. When the bank refuses a government bailout, and it becomes known that the Chinese State Investment Corporation is its major shareholder, the market slide turns into a panic. Are U.S. stock prices being manipulated by the Chinese government in retaliation for the president's intervention in Uganda? As the president's team takes drastic action to protect to the U.S. economy, the Chinese government strikes back to protect its interests, and the confrontation shifts rapidly from Wall Street to the coast of East Africa, where the U.S. and Chinese navies stand eye to eye. Trigger Point is an electrifying follow-up to Ultimatum that paints a terrifying portrait of where we might be headed. It's 2018: thirty-two American aid workers are massacred in Uganda by a terrorist organization. Six weeks later, stock prices on Wall Street fall; are they being manipulated by the Chinese government in retaliation for U.S. intervention in Uganda? As the president takes drastic action, the confrontation shifts from Wall Street to the coast of East Africa, where the U.S. and Chinese navies stand eye to eye. The United States and China find themselves squaring off against each other after the United States stages a military intervention in East Africa where China has influence.