Sixth Column

En klassisk, och som ofta vad gäller Heinlein, inte okontroversiell bok. Skriven samma år som anfallet mot Pearl Harbor (men publicerad efter kriget), handlar den om ett USA angripet av "PanAsiatiska" styrkor. Den amerikanska motståndsrörelsen tar fram ett fruktansvärt vapen - som bara dödar asiater. Med förord av Tom Kratman.
It's six against six million in a brilliantly-waged near-future war for nothing less than liberty and justice for all. The totalitarian East has triumphed in a massive invasion and the United States has fallen to a dictatorial superpower bent on total domination. That power is consolidating its grip via concentration camps, police state tactics, and a total monopoly upon the very thoughts of the conquered populace. A tiny enclave of scientists and soldiers survives, unbeknownst to America's new rulers. It's six against six million-but those six happen to include a scientific genius, a master of subterfuge and disguise who learned his trade as a lawyer-turned-hobo, and a tough-minded commander who knows how to get the best out of his rag-tag assortment of American discontents, wily operators, and geniuses. It's going to take technological savvy and a propaganda campaign that would leave Madison Avenue aghast, but the U.S. will rise again. The counterinsurgency for freedom is on, and defeat is not an option.