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After Claire completely lost her temper and what little rational
judgment she had, she started a civil war with SUSA, using hired
mercenaries when half of her own USA troops refused to fight their
neighbors. All along a battle line that stretched for thousands of
miles, from Texas to Georgia in the Old South, federal troops faced
Rebel forces across no-man's lands.*

Once again the SUSA, led by Ben Raines and his team, kicked her federal
troops' butt in battle after battle, driving her into a fury that knew
no bounds.

When Sugar Babe Osterman got word from her field commanders that Raines
had killed Commanding General Walter Berman, head of her entire Army, in
a hand-to-hand combat, she almost had a stroke. In a fit of pique, she
notified Cecil Jeffreys, President of the SUSA, that if he and his
leaders, especially that bastard Ben Raines, didn't surrender, she was
going to launch an all-out missile attack against the SUSA at 0600
hours. The missiles were to contain a highly effective, ancient strain
of anthrax bacteria developed by a USA scientist, Yiro Ishi. The
vaccinations the SUSA had given their troops against anthrax would be
useless due to the ancient nature of this new strain.

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However, Ishi double-crossed Claire Osterman and gave I the formula for
an effective vaccine to Ben Raines and a I fake formula to Osterman's
government. As the plague began Ito decimate the USA, Otis Warner, one
of Claire Osterman's Icabinet officers, conspired with General Joseph
Winter to [have Claire Osterman killed in a plane crash.

When the plane went down, Warner and Winter, sure Os-Iterman was dead,
took over the government of the USA, then (contacted SUSA president
Cecil Jeffreys and began to discuss |a peace accord.*

However, Claire Osterman survived the plane crash and vas taken in by a
family in the Ozark Mountains of Tennes-Isee . . .

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Claire Osterman looked up into the inky blackness of the night sky as
the plane she'd just jumped out of exploded in a fiery ball of flame.
The cold air rushed past her face and she flailed her arms, falling at
120 miles an hour toward the Tennessee mountains below.

She opened her mouth and began to scream . . .

"Wake up, lady," a voice said, pulling her from the depths of the
nightmare she'd had every night since her plane crash four weeks ago.