Empire City (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501177804)

From the author of Youngblood comes a "brilliant and daring" (Phil Klay, award-winning author of Redeployment) novel following a group of super-powered soldiers and civilians as they navigate an imperial America on the precipice of a major upheaval--for fans of The Fortress of Solitude and The Plot Against America.

Thirty years after its great triumph in Vietnam, the United States has again become mired in an endless foreign war overseas. Stories of super soldiers known as the Volunteers tuck in little American boys and girls every night. Yet domestic politics are aflame--an ex-military watchdog group clashes with police while radical terrorists threaten to expose government experiments within the veteran rehabilitation colonies.

Halfway between war and peace, the Volunteers find themselves waiting for orders in the vast American city-state, Empire City. There they encounter a small group of civilians who know the truth about their powers, including Sebastian Rios, a young bureaucrat wrestling with survivor guilt, and Mia Tucker, a wounded army pilot-turned-Wall Street banker. Meanwhile, Jean-Jacques Saint-Preux, a Haitian American Volunteer from the International Legion, decides he'll do whatever it takes to return to the front lines.

Through it all, a controversial retired general emerges as a frontrunner in the presidential campaign, promising to save the country from itself. Her election would mean unprecedented military control over the country, with promises of security and stability--but at what cost?

"A passionate, scary, wise, and perhaps even prophetic novel" (Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried), Empire City is a rousing vision of an alternate--yet all too familiar--America on the brink written by a "preeminent voice in American writing" (Sara Novic, author of Girl at War).

Author: Matt Gallagher
ISBN-10: 150117780X
ISBN-13: 9781501177804
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Language: English
Published: 01/26/2021
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.30w x 1.10d

About the Author
Matt Gallagher is a US Army veteran and the author of four books, including the novels Youngblood and Daybreak. His work has appeared in Esquire, ESPN, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and Wired, among other places. A graduate of Wake Forest and Columbia, he is the recipient of the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Fellowship, a Sewanee Writers' Conference Fellowship, and was selected as the 2022 Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum Writer-in-Residence. He lives with his family in Tulsa, Oklahoma.