Ghost Fleet

What will World War III look like? A new book from P. W. Singer and
August Cole answers this by smashing together the technothriller with
nonfiction.

Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War explores
what would happen if the brewing cold war between the US and
China/Russia were ever to turn hot. It is a fictional scenario, but a
real risk in the years ahead. Amid escalating tensions over Ukraine and
the South China Sea, China’s regime newspaper recently warned that “war
is inevitable” if the US doesn’t change its policies.

A unique hybrid between the technothriller and the nonfiction current affairs genres, reviewers liken Ghost Fleet to
early Tom Clancy in style – a novel, but one that comes with nearly 400
endnotes that point to just how real every single technology and trend
in it is. The book follows everything from a modern day Pearl Harbor
attack to what the first battles in space might be like, along the way
revealing everything from new Chinese drone prototypes to how certain US
weapons have already been hacked by cyberspies.