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Commander Lisa Chao works in the US Navy's Strategic Planning Center in Pearl Harbor. When tensions rise with China over Taiwan, she has to unravel exactly what's happening in the Pacific and why. What she uncovers leads America to war—but not with China. Bullets and bombs are no match for an extraterrestrial warship that can fly between stars, but perhaps the answer to the coming war lies not in the present but in the past. Could Sun Tzu's The Art of War provide humanity with a fighting chance against a technologically superior alien enemy?

When H. G. Wells first published The War of The Worlds in 1898, the novel quickly became a sci-fi classic. The story of extraterrestrials from Mars invading Earth captured the public’s imagination, inspiring a famed 1938 radio broadcast with Orson Welles, several feature films, countless video games, and a best-selling musical concept album by Jeff Wayne in 1978, among others.

The universe is in chaos. After a mysterious ancient alien race invaded human space, wiping out untold millions on dozens of worlds, humankind teeters on the brink of utter disaster. Only two paths forward seem to exist: enslavement or annihilation. But a small team of humans - seemingly thrown together by fate - emerge from the chaos of the attack, coalescing around a solitary noble warrior and a woman who the enemy seem to fear.