Victoria

After Marine captain John Rumford is forced from service, he returns to Maine and becomes involved in a resistance movement that grows beyond its local beginnings. Published under William S. Lind’s pseudonym Thomas Hobbes, Victoria dramatizes fourth-generation warfare through a speculative American collapse, competing factions, irregular combat, and ideological conflict. The novel functions partly as a political and military thought experiment, presenting a deliberately provocative vision of insurgency, state decline, and national restoration.