Lines of Fire: Book 2 of the Tom Bauer ChroniclesWhen former CIA operative Tom Bauer is pulled into the escalating American civil conflict, he discovers that the battle for Texas energy infrastructure has become a testing ground for a new form of warfare that threatens the very foundations of democratic civilization. As federal forces clash with separatist movements and international corporate armies, the true enemy emerges from the shadows, foreign powers conducting systematic economic colonization through energy warfare, cyber attacks, and humanitarian crises.Dr. Marisol Vega struggles to maintain medical neutrality while treating casualties from all factions, investigative journalist Sarah Mitchell uncovers the web of international corporate war profiteering, and cyber expert Naomi Cho builds civilian resistance networks as traditional institutions collapse. Together, they witness the transformation of American domestic conflict into hybrid warfare where tactical victory becomes strategic defeat, and the price of energy independence may be the destruction of the industrial civilization it was meant to protect.Set against the backdrop of Houston's militarized refineries and the frozen plains of East Texas, "Lines of Fire" explores how twenty-first-century conflicts blur the boundaries between military combat, economic warfare, and technological colonization. This gripping political thriller combines meticulous research into energy infrastructure vulnerabilities with human-scale storytelling that reveals how ordinary people adapt when their government can no longer protect them from systematic foreign strategic warfare.A masterful blend of military realism, geopolitical analysis, and environmental drama that will leave readers questioning everything they thought they knew about modern warfare and American energy security.