RED WHITE AND BLUE LAND

THE PRICE OF FRIENDSHIP

By: RICHARD WARBURG

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The Panama Canal. American control. At any cost.

Panama. When President Sloan demands the Canal back, he doesn't negotiate—he blockades. Ships reroute. Banks collapse. Medicine runs out. A proud nation that ran the Canal flawlessly for twenty-five years watches its economy strangled by an ally turned aggressor. President Mendez faces an impossible choice: surrender sovereignty or watch his people starve.

Syria. After a deadly ISIS attack, Sloan launches devastating airstrikes—then announces a full military withdrawal. The Kurds who lost eleven thousand fighters defeating ISIS are abandoned to face a Turkish invasion alone. Commander Zîlan Berxwedan prepares her outnumbered forces for a war they cannot win.

Two continents. Two betrayals. One foreign policy built on the assumption that American friendship can be revoked without consequence.

Caught between these colliding crises: a Venezuelan mother dragging her children through the Darien Gap as Panama collapses around her. A Kurdish grandmother passing down memories of genocide to ensure history isn't forgotten. An American sergeant who refuses to abandon his allies—even when his country already has.

The Price of Friendship is a searing political thriller about empire, loyalty, and the human wreckage left behind when a superpower decides its promises no longer apply.

Book 3 in the Red White and Blue Land series.