(Second Edition with revised and improved figures) The second in a series of three future historical novels based on a common theme of a second American Civil War taking place in the modern era. It follows the career of a rebel commando battalion operating covertly in the Inland Empire Area of Southern California. One part candid speculation and one part action-adventure n (Second Edition with revised and improved figures) The second in a series of three future historical novels based on a common theme of a second American Civil War taking place in the modern era. It follows the career of a rebel commando battalion operating covertly in the Inland Empire Area of Southern California. One part candid speculation and one part action-adventure novel it shows how a paramilitary conflict might play out in the US today.