Since publication of his Prometheus Award- winning The Probability Broach, L. Neil Smith has been widely considered the best libertarian science fiction writer in the world. he American Zone already nominated for the Prometheus, is the story of Win Bear, a detective who discovers a portalthe probability broachto alternate worlds. Win has settled in the North American Confederacy, on an alternate world where George Washington was shot, sending history in a very different turn.Someone is bombing buildings, many people are being killed, and the libertarian paradise of the Confederacy is threatened. Its up to Win to find those behind the violence and stop them before more people die. Hell find adventure, excitement, and danger aplenty before he brings the guilty to justice and restores peace and tranquility to his adopted world.