Under Attack

After the multiple terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, David Alexander began developing an idea for an action technothriller that would address the issues of today in an imaginative framework that would also work as an effective story tomorrow. In Under Attack, set a few years in the future, Alexander tells the story of the next phase of the continuing war against international terrorist forces.

As the book opens, the successors to Al Qaeda are planning a bold new series of terrorist strikes against high-priority military, civilian, government and commercial targets around the world. The keystone and culminating event of these phased attacks is to be Strike Day, when an attack on the United States, on U.S. military forces abroad, and on one of America's
chief Middle Eastern allies, is planned to strike a hammerblow against the edifice of American global power that will send the U.S. sliding into chaos.

Against a backdrop of NATO regional warfare on the Arabian littoral to attack terrorist strongholds before these devastating attacks will occur, an elite U.S. special forces detachment, brought into being by secret presidential finding, spearheads the assault on the center of enemy power. On Strike Day its commander will find himself virtually alone against the surprise attack on America that, if successful, will make both Pearl Harbor and September 11th pale by comparison.

Under Attack is not only an unforgettable page-turner ... it is also a warning of what might happen tomorrow if America grows careless again. As the author of Tomorrow's Soldier, which predicted new and devastating terrorist attacks on the U.S. in its first paragraph, Alexander has a track record of extrapolating future history from present-day events. Under Attack will not only entertain ... it will inform and it will challenge. And it will be a book few will be able to put down after the first sentence has been read.