Refuge

von David Richard Schoorens

412 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

What happens if democracy falls?Refuge: A Novel of Lost Democracy is military and political thriller with a large measure of the dystopian fiction genre. But it goes beyond the usual tactical thriller.It is a moral thriller.Set in our near future, the story imagines the rapid descent of American democracy into autocracy. The fall does not come in the aftermath of economic collapse or war.All it took was an election.Gerrymandered districts. Laws suppressing the vote. Disinformation and lies. Promises of former glory. Apathy and ignorance. Political violence and above all, fear.Democracy fell because it was our choice.The story opens in Saint Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada, where American dissidents hope to start a new life. Mike and Debbie Whynot, both retired U.S. Air Force officers and leaders of their fellow expatriates, face threats from the new autocratic U.S. government. They will pay dearly for their continued fight for democracy.Across the Saint Croix River in Eastport, Maine, others remain in service to the new U.S. government. A few will find the moral burden unendurable.Meanwhile, the authoritarian U.S. president is hurtling toward open warfare with Canada and NATO.Refuge is a prescient cautionary tale. A political horror story where the monsters are real and they don't go away when you close the book.

• Reihe: Stillwater River Publications
• ISBN: 9781958217658
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.11.2022
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published