The Great Divide - Softcover

Robinson, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0765336987 ISBN 13: 9780765336989

Verlag: Tor Books, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

In the hallowed halls of the capital, some who have sworn to preserve our nation's union are secretly plotting its demise ... and they are willing to kill to achieve their goals.

The country has been split into two distinct factions over energy - "the haves" (those states that are fuel self-sufficient) and "the have nots". The inept execution of a flawed foreign policy in the Middle East has resulted in an Arab-backed oil embargo of the United States.

Now the country is in the grips of the most severe winter in years, and rationing has led to unrest and rioting in the streets ... and certain politicians and business power brokers are ready to make a move.

As masses freeze in Chicago and the northeast, fuel-sufficient sunbelt conspirators seek to separate themselves from the rest of the nation, make their own foreign policy, and govern by their own rules--and to do it they will resort to blackmail, bribery, and even murder.

The Constitution is only a stumbling block, and it can be amended.

The United States will be united no more.

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Frank M. Robinson (1926-2014) is the author of the classic thrillers, The Power, filmed in 1968, and The Glass Tower, which was one of the sources for the Irwin Allen blockbuster film The Towering Inferno. A U.S. Navy veteran of both WWII and the Korean War, he earned degrees in physics and journalism. He worked at a number of magazines, including Science Digest, Rogue, Cavalier and Playboy before becoming a freelance writer. He is the author of many novels and stories, a noted collector of pulp magazines, and was the executor of the estate of Harvey Milk. His novel The Dark Beyond the Stars won the Lambda Award.

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"The Great Divide is a political thriller set several years into the future at a time when a Middle East oil embargo is disrupting the countryThe authors have so cleverly extrapolated from trends and political figures of the present and recent past that the reader easily suspends disbelief" The action is fast paced, building to a cliffhanger ending"
-- "Library Journal"
" ...painfully real and more than a little frightening" --"Chicago Tribune Book World"
" ...a suspenseful, exciting tale centered on the U.S. as it totters on the brink of civil war"
--"Duluth News Tribune"
" ...an action packed, fast paced thriller that reads like today's headlines" -- "Tampa Tribune & Times"

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Tor Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0765336987
• ISBN 13: 9780765336989
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 354
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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