- Ringo, John.
The Last Centurion.
Riverdale, NY: Baen Publishing, 2008.
ISBN 978-1-4391-3291-3.
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Three interwoven stories chronicle the consequences of a
feckless U.S. withdrawal from the Near East leaving a mass of
materiel and only one Army company behind to
“protect” it, a global pandemic exploding from China
which killed a substantial fraction of the world's population,
and the onset of a solar-driven little ice age which, combined
with a U.S. administration that went far beyond incompetence
into outright wrecking of the nation, brought famine to America.
Heroism, integrity, and a relentless capacity to see things as
they really are the only resources Army officer “Bandit
Six” has to cope with the crises.
May 2020 