Pathway to Treason: The Republic in 2020, Australia's President and Prime Minister Clash, the Troops Await Orders... From Whom? [Paperback] Harris, Ken

Australia, 2020. The nation has voted to become a republic, but the transition has gone spectacularly wrong. The new President and the Prime Minister are locked in a constitutional power struggle, each claiming legitimacy. The military stands ready — but who gives the orders when two heads of state are both issuing commands? Ken Harris imagines a near-future political crisis that feels uncomfortably plausible: gridlock, constitutional ambiguity, and the threat of actual violence over who runs the country. Written with an eye for procedural detail and political brinkmanship, this speculative thriller explores what happens when Australia's normally stable democracy hits a constitutional fault line. It's a thought experiment dressed as a page-turner, asking hard questions about sovereignty, loyalty, and what really holds a nation together when the rulebook runs out. For readers who like their fiction grounded in real-world systems under stress.