Leviathan's Fall: When hi-tech warfare fails

by Fergus Bannon

IN WAR, THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE VICTOR. When a West African despot executes US charity workers, the hawkish and newly elected President of the United States sees only one to crush General Olomo with the overwhelming firepower of a Supercarrier Battle Group. A nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, its attending warships and scores of fighter jets with the weapon systems of the most heavily armed nation on Earth, versus a tinpot dictator with an army of conscripted farmers. BUT EVEN THE MOST HIGH-TECH MILITARY HAS ITS ACHILLES HEEL. And General Olomo intends to exploit that weakness to its fullest. In the midst of spiralling violence, only Joey Beck, a Federal agent, suspects Olomo’s true intentions. Cans she persuade the entire United States military to abandon a strategy she suspects will end in one of history’s greatest defeats - and will she lose everything in pursuit of that goal?

405 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 21, 2016

About the author

Fergus Bannon writes fast paced thrillers which take a jaded and heretical view of what we think we know of science and technology.
Following graduation, he ran away to sea, his merchant shipping line taking him to some of the choicer trouble spots around the world. Rich though the seafaring life was, it could also be rather dangerous. After having a run-in with a death squad in South America (the basis of a key scene in his book 'Heretic'), and then nearly getting his throat slit in Jamaica, he began to harbour doubts about his long term prospects. A hurricane in the Atlantic, and a major fire on board ship in the Pacific, only reinforced this view.
Nursing an ambition to live until the age of forty, he therefore came ashore and eventually became a professor of physics. Fergus Bannon is a pen name for his fiction, but he has also published a non-fiction book called 'Science for Heretics' under his actual name of Barrie Condon.