Operation Black Horse - Paperback

by N. J. Gervasi (Author)

Dr. Caitlyn Svendsen clawed her way out of despair to become one of Minnesota's most successful surgeons in the aftermath of the Great World Famine of 2025. She would do anything to save her patients, but the secrets she carries are dangerous enough to put her and everyone close to her in the ground. Spetsnaz Commander Kaleb Volkov lost everything during the first years of famine in Russia. To survive, he sold his soul to the worst kind of devil before surrendering himself to the military for redemption.

Caitlyn and Kaleb are the epitome of clashing personalities, raised to resent each other in a world teetering on the brink of destruction. Groomed to be the best of their respective professions, it is no surprise that they meet their match in each other sixteen years after the crisis began. She is his country's salvation. He is the eye of a storm heading for America, ready to tear her reality apart.

It's 2041. Caitlyn's patients are no longer hungry thanks to America's classified growth formula designed to outsmart crop failure, but they are still dying. The cause of their illness is a mystery that Caitlyn seeks to unravel despite the risk to her career, and life. Meanwhile, Kaleb is as restless as his motherland. Russia is still starving, denied access to America's growing techniques.

While America blackmails enemies and allies alike into submission with the promise of food, Russia is desperate to restore its influence in the wake of America's agricultural domination. When food stores outrank nuclear arsenals, it's no wonder that the political landscape a powder keg, one where America holds the match. To level the playing field, Kaleb is tasked with a mission that leads him to Caitlyn, forcing the two natural enemies to work together in a world plagued by famine, disease and now...WWIII. Can they overcome their mutual distrust to save their nations from true apocalypse?