Fulcrum, FX Holden
Fulcrum, FX Holden
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Fulcrum

Author: FX Holden

Series: Aggressor

Narrator: Gary Bennett

Unabridged: 30 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/25/2025


Synopsis

It is six months since the Battle of Hawaii. The war to defend Taiwan has become World War III, and the surviving pilots of a rested and refitted Aggressor Inc. are thrown back into the fight as it moves across multiple fronts.

On Japanese Kunashiri Island, the crew of a single Japanese Infantry Fighting Vehicle tries to hold back an entire Russian airborne company, while marauding Russian fighters pour into the skies overhead. A Chinese hacker captured off San Luis Obispo Bay could be the key to the wolf pack's victory or defeat. At Josan-ri in Korea, US Marine Uncrewed Ground Vehicle (UGV) platoon leader, Second Lieutenant Leroy King of Scout Team Two, 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, prepares for an incursion into the DMZ.

In the US, the powerful conspirators behind the Raven Rock Bombing finally step out of the shadows. US President Carmen Carliotti is suddenly facing an internal enemy that could prove fatal both to her administration, and the integrity of the USA itself. China's Northern Fleet was destroyed off Hawaii and its air force has lost control of the skies over the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea. From ports in South Korea, the US prepares to launch its largest amphibious assault since D-Day. If it succeeds, it could trigger China's capitulation. If it fails . . .

About FX Holden

FX Holden is a pen name of former Australian intelligence officer and journalist, Tim Slee. In 2017 he won the Grand Prize in the US Publishers Weekly BookLife Prize in Fiction. In 2018 he received the Banjo Prize for Australian Fiction and his novel, Taking Tom Murray Home, was published in the US and UK in 2022. He has been awarded two Publishers Weekly Stars, the US Readers' Favorite award for Best Political Thriller in 2019 (Okinawa) and 2021 (Kobani), and the Book Excellence Award for Best Military Fiction (DMZ) 2023.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ajitabh on November 03, 2024

This book is very long, over 700 pages, and it is quite captivating. The author has brought back several characters from the previous book in the series - some with a significant role in this, some not so significant. A few characters who have been in the past few books of the series did not make it......more

Goodreads review by Basil on October 29, 2024

AMAZING! This was the best military set books I have ever read. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time because it was always action packed and seamlessly flows into the next scene. Absolutely perfect!......more

Goodreads review by T.J. on September 06, 2024

Not a true review since I am the author! So, consider this an 'author note' on the writing of FULCRUM. Will keep it spoiler free. Generally: The cadence for books one to four of the Aggressor series was one every 3 months (!) with the first 'AGGRESSOR' published April 2023. I wore out two laptop keyb......more

Goodreads review by Andrew Graham on October 05, 2024

Another winner. Yet again you are taken into the world of war by the author who has the ability to describe what can happen during a major conflict between the world Super powers and ultimately the deaths that mount up,both civilian deaths and military. The characters he writes about are not Super her......more

Goodreads review by Edgar on September 23, 2024

NON STOP READING This is non stop reading from Book 1'trough 5. In Fulcrum, Holden brings the war to conclusion trough a delta's of independent stories casting the favorite characters from The Future Of War Series vans Aggressor. So this is about Bunny O'Hare., about gunnery earnest James Jensen brin......more