The Governor's Commission
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
08.08.2026
Verlag
Amazon Digital Services LLC - KdpSeitenzahl
200
Maße (L/B/H)
20,3/12,7/1,3 cm
Gewicht
181 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798191451305
The British Empire still rules America. Now London must decide how to govern a continent powerful enough to challenge the Empire that created it.
Recalled abruptly from Japan, imperial administrator Simon Hale expects his knowledge of East Asia to be the reason Whitehall wants him home. Instead, he is offered one of the most consequential offices in the Empire: Governor-General of America.
The appointment is presented as reform, not occupation. America is prosperous, technologically advanced and indispensable to imperial power, its shipyards, aerospace industries, cyber networks and vast industrial system supporting British influence across the globe. Yet beneath the loyal institutions and formal assemblies, political confidence is growing, and London knows that the old methods of colonial government are beginning to fail.
While Simon prepares to cross the Atlantic, Admiral Edward Halstead commands a British-Japanese carrier force in the Pacific, where Chinese reconnaissance drones probe the limits of allied restraint and the Empire's military commitments continue to spread across multiple theatres.
In Philadelphia, Charlotte Mercer watches the Governor-General's new administration form from the inside. Every transition packet, defence-support document and assembly report reveals something London may not fully understand: America is already far more organised, capable and self-aware than the Empire assumes.
By the time Simon reaches Philadelphia, his commission has already begun changing institutions, alliances and lives thousands of miles apart.
And America has been preparing for him.
The Governor's Commission is Book Two of The Measure of Empire, a modern alternate-history political saga of imperial power, geopolitical rivalry, military pressure and the people caught inside a world order beginning to strain under its own weight.
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