The Profession

A Thriller

Steven Pressfield

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Broadway Books
01 August 2012

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Thriller & suspense; War & combat fiction; Politics & government

The bestselling author of Gates of Fire, The Afghan Campaign, and Killing Rommel delivers a ""thinking person's techno-thriller"" (Wall Street Journal) in this chillingly plausible near-future tale about the rise of a privately financed and global military industrial complex.

Master storyteller and bestselling author Steven Pressfield returns with a stunning, chillingly plausible near-future thriller about the rise of a privately financed and global military industrial complex.

The year is 2032. The third Iran-Iraq war is over; the 11/11 dirty bomb attack on the port of Long Beach, California is receding into memory; Saudi Arabia has recently quelled a coup; Russians and Turks are clashing in the Caspian Basin; Iranian armored units, supported by the satellite and drone power of their Chinese allies, have emerged from their enclaves in Tehran and are sweeping south attempting to recapture the resource rich territory stolen from them, in their view, by Lukoil, BP, and ExxonMobil and their privately-funded armies.

Everywhere, military force is for hire. Oil companies, multi-national corporations and banks employ powerful, cutting-edge mercenary armies to control global chaos and protect their riches. Even nation states enlist mercenary forces to suppress internal insurrections, hunt terrorists, and do the black bag jobs necessary to maintain the new New World Order.

Force Insertion is the world's merc monopoly. Its leader is the disgraced former United States Marine General James Salter, stripped of his command by the president for nuclear saber-rattling with the Chinese and banished to the Far East. A grandmaster military and political strategist, Salter plans to take vengeance on those responsible for his exile and then come home...as Commander in Chief. The only man who can stop him is Gilbert ""Gent"" Gentilhomme, Salter's most loyal foot soldier, who launches a desperate mission to take out his mentor and save the United States from self destruction.

Infused with a staggering breadth of research in military tactics and steeped in the timeless themes of the honor and valor of men at war that distinguish all of Pressfield's fiction, The Profession is that rare novel that informs and challenges the reader almost as much as it entertains.

By: Steven Pressfield
Imprint: Broadway Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 266g
ISBN: 9780767931175
ISBN 10: 0767931173
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 01 August 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Profession: A Thriller

Gripping. . . provocative. . . a thinking person's techno-thriller. - Wall Street Journal 'The Profession' is a compelling mix of modern weaponry, modern communications, modern politics and the warrior's ancient ethos of honor and loyalty. It moves quickly and with deadly precision ... This is the modern world taken to its logical and frightening extreme. - Los Angeles Times Steven Pressfield, in The Profession, has written a novel of the near future that is as good and in some cases better than anything Tom Clancy ever wrote in his day. -Mark Whittington, Yahoo! Pressfield's military thriller stands out from the crowd by speculating on what the next generation of warfare will be like and then dropping the reader right into the action. Clancy fans should give this a shot. - Booklist When I read a novel, I want to go someplace, with somebody who's been there. In THE PROFESSION, Pressfield takes us into the heart of combat--and even deeper th