the NEW WORLD: Book One of Kinetic War

One morning, every gun on Earth goes silent.Not broken. Not destroyed. Simply refused. Missiles flare into harmless light. Bullets flatten against skin like dropped coins. In a single hour, a century of human weaponry stops working - and the world discovers that a blade swung by a human arm still kills exactly the way it always has.President Thomas Tanner has seventy-two hours to keep the United States from tearing itself apart before he can even ask why. A Special Forces team follows a signal into the Andes toward an answer that might unmake everything they think they know. And in Chicago, a martial arts instructor and the gardener he's loved since they were fifteen are about to find out that the necklace she's worn her whole life was never just a keepsake.As nations rearm with steel and shield walls instead of satellites and warheads, one question moves from the Oval Office to a mountain temple older than memory: what actually took the guns away - and what does it expect from humanity in return?The New World begins as a geopolitical thriller and ends somewhere far stranger. For readers of S.M. Stirling's Emberverse, World War Z, and anyone who's ever wondered what a modern superpower would do if it woke up in the Dark Ages by morning.