Stolen from Sean Eric Fagan

[james_davis_nicoll]

Guess the publisher! No googling!

Bailouts and ambitious plans for recovery have failed to rescue the United States’ crumbling economy. The president takes a desperate gamble and strikes a bargain with China to write off America’s debt. It seems a brilliant move, until the Supreme Court is destroyed by a cruise missile in a shocking attack and Manhattan is invaded. China has come to claim what’s theirs. With American captives executed daily in national broadcasts by the attackers, the government in disarray, and US military forces shattered into local militias, all seems lost. Deep in the heart of Texas the American spirit lives on. John David Drury, a young, untried, but highly qualified “four-star general” of a scrappy militia, along with Molly Spitz, a highly-ranked graduate of the Air Force Academy, prepares to lead a strike against New York City.

Comments

[redbird]

That blurb suggests a really weird idea of the Supreme Court, if nothing else. On a year-by-year basis, yes, it has major influence; that doesn't mean missing a few weeks would matter to many people. I suspect that if all nine justices were killed in a single attack, the president would send the senate three or four senators as nominees and say "get this done quickly so the terrorists don't win, we can get back up to nine judges later."

The only good thing about being unable to keep up with the things I want to read is that there's no danger of picking up this sort of dreck.

[nathan helfinstine (from livejournal.com)]

Yup. I'm pretty sure if Manhattan was occupied by a foreign power, the news that the Supreme Court was killed in a missile strike would be about page A4 at best.

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

In the Times, it might well be relegated to the Arts and Leisure section.