Pax Americana

For twenty-five years, James Cormier watched the American empire hollow itself out from the inside.A senior analyst at Canada's signals intelligence agency, Cormier has spent his career inside the Five Eyes alliance — the most powerful intelligence partnership in the world. He's seen the post-9/11 solidarity dissolve into the Iraq deception. Watched the 2008 crash export American recklessness to every allied economy. Noted each broken promise, each abandoned red line, each alliance treated as a transaction rather than a commitment.Now, a Pacific crisis has exposed what Cormier always knew: the United States is no longer a reliable ally. Tasked with formalizing his classified assessment — code-named the Gibbon Report — Cormier must put his name on the document that declares the most important alliance of the modern era functionally dead.Then the Americans find out it exists.What follows is not a war. It's something quieter and more devastating: the diplomatic, intelligence, and political machinery of the world's most powerful nation directed at one man, one report, and the country that dared to write it down.Drawing on the parallels between America's arc and the decline of Rome — military overextension, currency debasement, bread and circuses, senate dysfunction — Pax Americana is a literary thriller about what happens when the empire doesn't fall with a crash but with a shrug.Empires don't announce their departure. They just stop showing up.