内容简介：
It is the year 2005; the United States of America are fighting a war on terrorists at home and abroad. Canada, although sympathetic to the American cause, refuses to send troops and military equipment into Iraq and instead offers its peacekeeping and humanitarian services to its neighbour to the south. As the U.S.as struggles continue, Canada is suddenly attacked by a killer epidemic of a new strain of severe acute respiratory disease, which within weeks brings the second largest country in the world to its knees. When the United States tightens her borders and offers immediate medical and civil aid, the Canadian government welcome the relief with open arms. It is only after the first contingence of tanks, troops, aircraft and ships cross Canadaas borders that too late they realize the oil reserves, uranium and other natural resources of Canada needed to fuel the Presidentas war machine was too much a temptation to resist. As millions of shocked Canadians, Americans and Europeans watch, the President of the United States makes an international news conference announcing the collapse of the Canadian government and the temporary enforcement of martial law under U.S.-led military troops. The citizens of Canada, weakened by SARS, begin an underground movement to rival the French resistance of World War II, and as it grows the American government realize it may be harder to hold on to Canada than it was to take control of it.