An enovel by T.L. Winslow about the 22nd century when China, grown imperialistic, has swallowed up all of Asia, including Japan, and gone deep underground in response to its groaning overpopulation. It then launches a sneak attack against the West using death ray weapons that shoot through the core of the earth. World War Core begins. The west responds with quantum mechanical corerunner ships. The fate of the second expedition, in the hands of Major Revena Bleeding, a tall, leggy Amazonian warrior with a checkered past of loves and vices, could decide the fate of the West.