In the year 2101, the world has been rewritten. After World War 3, the United States faces a new superpower in the East known as the Empire. Genetically enhanced “Immortals” and Imperial Guards have crushed the old balance of power, while a failed AI arms race has left the West lagging behind. The only thing stopping an invasion of America is a network of godlike weapons in orbit—deadly satellites controlled by a fanatical militia called the God’s Army. Inside the Los Angeles Municipal Green Zone, laser force fields keep the chaos at bay. Outside its walls, in a run-down village, lives twenty-one-year-old Cyrus—an immigrant nerd who loves Star Trek and Star Wars. He’s been raised in isolation, given an elite education and military training, but every major event after September 11, 2001 has been erased from his history lessons. Cyrus knows tactics and theory, not the truth. He dreams of escaping his tedious, lonely life and finding Yasi, the childhood love who was taken from him years ago. But the past hasn’t forgotten him. Assassins are hunting Cyrus, and somewhere inside the Green Zone is Christine, a beautiful stranger who seems, in every way, to echo his pure love for Yasi—the girl he’s spent his life trying to find. Forgotten wars, buried technologies, and secret cabals all converge on one idealistic, hopelessly romantic young man whose choices will decide whether the world survives a fourth world war—or burns in one. World War 4.2 is a character-driven, near-future epic that blends immigrant coming-of-age, complex geopolitics, science-fiction romance, and questions of faith, propaganda, and free will in an age when even memory can be weaponized.